Biden Says Deporting Illegal Immigrants to Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua Is ‘Not Rational’

President Joe Biden speaks at the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington on Sept. 20, 2022. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

President Joe Biden said Tuesday that it’s “not rational” to send illegal immigrants at the southern border who fled Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua, back to their own nations.

During a Tuesday briefing, Biden was pressed by a reporter about why the U.S.–Mexico border is more overwhelmed on his watch.