House Democrats, who shrugged off the idea of terrorists crossing the border illegally, remained silent over the arrest of two Yemeni men on a terror watchlist.
Vice President Kamala Harris let out a laugh after answering "not today" to a reporter, who asked her if she had plans to visit the U.S.-Mexico border.
U.S. President Joe Biden's administration has earlier limited media access along the U.S.-Mexico border after seeing an increase in migrant arrivals, which includes a huge number of unaccompanied migrant children.
Border patrol agents from Yuma arrested 11 Iranians, including two children, after they crossed illegally into the United States from Mexico on Monday night.
Hospitals are currently transferring patients to different facilities miles and miles away to manage the flood of US green card holders and Americans who got ill in Mexico.
The United States banned all forms of cross-border travel coming in from other countries through extended powers. Migrants seeking asylum and travelers remained at the border waiting for a hearing at court to be let into the U.S. as coronavirus cases rose from both sides.
The governments in Caracas and Bogotá on Dec. 29 offered contradictory accounts of what led to the crash of a Venezuelan military helicopter that injured the pilot and co-pilot.