White House Claims Illegal Aliens Aren’t ‘Walking Across Border’ Despite Contradicting Video Footage
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has claimed that illegal aliens are not able to just “walk over” the southern border and enter the United States, despite video footage showing immigrants doing exactly that.
Jean-Pierre made the comments at a White House press briefing on Monday in response to a question regarding unvaccinated illegal aliens from Fox News reporter Peter Doocy.
“Somebody unvaccinated comes over on a plane. You say that’s not OK. Somebody walks into Texas or Arizona unvaccinated, they’re allowed to stay? Why?” Doocy asked.
“But that’s not how it works,” Jean-Pierre responded. “It’s not like somebody walks over.”
Doocy then noted that “thousands of people are walking” over the border on a daily basis, of which some hand themselves over to border control agents, while others manage to evade law enforcement.
The press secretary again doubled down on her narrative that this is not the case, before going on to cite moves by the Biden administration to combat the illegal immigrant crisis, including installing new border technology and setting up joint protocols with Mexico and Guatemala to catch more human traffickers.
She went on to state that officials have “already made over 3,000 arrests in the first three months of launching an unprecedented anti-smuggling campaign with regional partners” and have secured “record levels of funding for the Department of Homeland Security.”
Jean-Pierre also noted that the administration has established “dedicated immigration judges” in an effort to speed up the process of immigrants having their cases heard.
Illegal immigrants are apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol and National Guard troops in Eagle Pass, Texas, near the border with Mexico on June 30, 2022. (Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images) Taking Aim at Trump
The press secretary also referred to contrasts between the Biden administration and the Trump administration, noting that the former president had focused on
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