White House Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre did her usual thing on Friday and, instead of actually answering Fox News White House Correspondent Peter Doocy’s questions about a sensitive topic, the border, tried to blame the Republicans and dodge defending what’s actually happening thanks to Biden policies.
That came when he asked about the Biden Administration’s stance on the 10,000 illegal immigrants that crossed in a single day and she said that really it is the Republican, specifically Trump and his administration, who are to blame for the border situation, despite it now being two and a half years into the Biden Administration.
She said, “And so, a broken system. It’s been broken for the past couple of decades. The last administration certainly gutted the immigration system for four years. That’s what they did . . . We saw that — we saw that this week with the — with the CR, where they put forth another — another piece of legislation to cut — to cut — to propose continuing to cut — cut some important resources that’s needed, whether it’s CBP — 800 fewer CBP is what they wanted to do. Fifty thousand pounds of cocaine, that’s what it would — that’s what it would hurt — right? — in — in trying to prevent that from coming in. Right?”
Continuing, she added, “When you think about more than 300 pounds of fentanyl, when you think about more than 700 pounds of heroin, more than 6,000 pounds of methamphetamine to enter the country — that’s what they were trying to prevent from the work that we’re trying to do — prevent from coming into the country. So, we would love to do this in a bipartisan way, but we’re not seeing that. We’re seeing — what we’re seeing from House Republicans is wanting to defend — defu- — defund, pardon me, DHS.”
Well, Doocy was evidently ready for that, as he came out swinging with a question that stunned her into mumbling and giving an even worse sort of answer than normal. When she finished her anti-Trump harangue, he asked, “But when you spoke last month —and you said, ‘We are stopping the flow at the border,’ is 10,000 migrants in a single day stopping the flow?”
She didn’t even try to rebut his point or give a real response, saying, “What I will say is — I just mentioned 250 [thousand] individuals have been — have been stopped who do not have the legal pathway from coming in. That has been since May 12th.”
“And — and as we are, you know, looking at Eagle Pass — and I know this is a — this is a — where — where kind of the — the issue is at the ti- — at the moment. You know, CBP quickly surged resources and personnel to the area. And thanks to their great work — their great work, we’re able to swiftly vet — vetted and processed into custody more than two hun- — 2,500 individuals and cleared the area where migrants had congregated. And that’s the work of our law enforcement. That’s the work of our law enforcement at the border. Remember, House Republicans are trying to cut that. They’re trying to cut that,” she added.
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