“It shouldn’t be a crime to have a visa -– to have a status violation. If somebody commits a crime or is guilty of a crime, and they’re in our country, prosecutorial discretion would warrant that they, or justify that they be sent away,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told a news conference.
“But you just cannot say — and there’s a disagreement — that anybody coming across the border is breaking the law. Not until there’s been a determination as to whether they can stay or not. But just because they’re coming across the border, they don’t.”
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) volunteered her opinion, when a reporter asked her about the photograph of a man who drowned with his little girl at the U.S.-Mexican border.
“What was your immediate reaction when you saw that photo and who do you hold responsible for it? Is there anybody to blame for that?” a reporter asked Pelosi.