Karine Jean-Pierre didn't acknowledge the hundreds of migrants who illegally cross the border annually.
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The Biden administration’s border insurance policies are so preposterous that even the White Home press secretary can’t imagine they’re actual.
Earlier this week, Peter Doocy of Fox Information questioned press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre about tennis star Novak Djokovic being barred from getting into the US to play within the US Open as a result of he hasn’t been vaccinated towards COVID.
(Having simply returned from abroad, I can attest that the airways repeatedly warn vacationers that foreigners with out inexperienced playing cards should present proof of vaccination to be admitted.)
Doocy requested, “Any person unvaccinated comes over on a aircraft, you say that’s not OK. Any person walks into Texas or Arizona unvaccinated, they’re allowed to remain?”
Right here’s Jean-Pierre’s reply: “That’s not the way it works … It’s not like somebody walks over.”
Truly, it’s precisely like that. From October of final yr via July, the Border Patrol apprehended greater than 1.8 million unlawful border-crossers on the southern border, greater than any yr in historical past, and there are nonetheless two months to go within the fiscal yr. Every day in July, a median of practically 6,000 unlawful migrants have been arrested on the border — or “encountered,” within the new PC jargon.
And whereas a few of these individuals didn’t need to get caught, an enormous share of them did, in actual fact, simply “stroll over” and switch themselves in, safe within the data that the Biden Division of Homeland Safety would permit them to remain. Simply final weekend in south Texas, three teams of unlawful migrants, totaling practically 500, simply walked over the border and flagged down the Border Patrol.
In Yuma, Ariz., so many unlawful migrants are strolling over the border via a niche within the fence left by President Biden’s Inauguration Day stop-work order that there are chairs subsequent to the fence for these ready for rides from the Border Patrol.
Among the border-jumpers actually are returned to Mexico beneath a COVID-era public well being order referred to as Title 42 (which the Biden administration is making an attempt to finish). However since Inauguration Day, this administration has launched properly over 1 million unlawful border-crossers into the US, few if any of whom will ever depart. They might or might not present up for an asylum listening to sooner or later sooner or later, however even when they do and lose, they’ll simply keep. As a result of who’s going to search for them?
Some may think that the press secretary’s “it’s not like somebody walks over” remark was a brazen lie, however I don’t suppose so — she simply doesn’t strike me as being as crafty as her predecessor. As a substitute, I feel that, like many People, particularly Democrats, she actually has no thought what a catastrophe the border is and the way a lot Biden’s insurance policies are accountable.
It’s pure to low cost feedback from political opponents, and when Doocy (whom the White Home clearly sees as a political opponent, in distinction to the poodles from friendlier retailers) mentioned migrants have been simply strolling into the US, Jean-Pierre responded prefer it was an absurd falsehood. As a result of, actually, what authorities would permit tens of millions of unlawful migrants to only stroll throughout the border?
Her authorities, because it seems.
Mark Krikorian is government director of the Middle for Immigration Research.
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