Reflecting the urgency of ["]the political problem["] for the administration, Homeland Security chief Alejandro Mallorkas said Tuesday the images "horrified" him, a seeming shift in tone from a day earlier, when he and others were more sanguine about the situation at the border.
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when asked by a reporter after his U.N. remarks to offer his reaction to the images.

"We'll get it under control," [Biden] insisted.

Accounts of wide-scale releases - some observed at the Del Rio bus station by Associated Press journalists - are at odds with statements a day earlier by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mallorkas, who traveled to Del Rio to promise swift action.