The White House has struggled to answer questions related to illegal immigration as the southern border crisis continues.
During Monday’s press briefing, Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy pressed White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre abouts the Biden administration’s inconsistencies with COVID-19 vaccines and border policies.
Doocy: “Somebody unvaccinated comes over on a plane, you say that’s not okay. Somebody walks into Texas or Arizona unvaccinated, they’re allowed to stay?”
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Jean-Pierre: “That’s not how it works… It’s not like someone walks over.”
Doocy: “That’s exactly what is happening!” pic.twitter.com/mr8XE1n1oY
“Somebody unvaccinated comes over on a plane, you say that’s not okay. Somebody walks into Texas or Arizona unvaccinated, they’re allowed to stay?” Doocy asked.
To which Jean-Pierre responded: “That’s not how it works… It’s not like someone walks over.”
“That’s exactly what is happening!” the correspondent clapped back.
The press secretary pushed back against Doocy’s claims before going with her usual dodge and stall tactics to try to deter reporters from asking about the real issues in America.
This comes as the Customs and Border Protection announced recently that the southern border had 199,976 migrant encounters in July, totaling 1.946 million migrant encounters this year.
The U.S. has been seeing massive migrant numbers since President Joe Biden announced that he would be lifting “Title 42,” a controversial border policy implemented by former President Donald Trump back in March 2020 that allowed the border agency to turn migrants away.
Jean-Pierre insisted “it is not just that people are walking across the border” and that Biden has “a plan in place” to deal with the historic surge of illegal immigration at the southern border.
The swarm of illegal immigrants in nearby border cities has already resulted in property damage, stolen vehicles, gun violence, and other issues resulting from migrants crossing into their counties, many of which are desolate and have sparse populations.
“In my community, we have less than 1,000 residents. The thousand residents everyday live in fear of the invasion,” said Dale Lynn Carruthers, the county judge for Terrell County. “We are doing the best we can with limited manpower. Terrell County has the least to offer but we have a lot of border coverage.”
Yet, Biden continued to insist that the border is “closed.” A new poll conducted by left-wing media outlet NPR found recently that a whopping 54 percent of Americans believe the president has purposely created the crisis at the border and is doing nothing to stop it.
