{"id":1453622,"date":"2022-04-26T07:29:54","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T11:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1453622"},"modified":"2022-04-26T07:29:58","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T11:29:58","slug":"white-house-blames-texas-for-death-of-national-guardsman-who-died-rescuing-illegals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-blames-texas-for-death-of-national-guardsman-who-died-rescuing-illegals\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Blames Texas for Death of National Guardsman Who Died Rescuing Illegals"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhite-house-blames-texas-for-death-of-national-guardsman-who-died-rescuing-illegals%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1453622&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki was asked on Monday if the Biden administration believes it bears any responsibility for the <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/breaking-texas-national-guard-soldier-dies-trying-to-save-migrants-in-rio-grande\">death of the Texas National Guard soldier<\/a> who drowned in the Rio Grande trying to save two drug-smuggling migrants.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Fox News reporter Jacqui Heinrich pressed Psaki to comment Monday on the drowning of 22-year-old Texas Army National Guard Specialist <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/texas-national-guard-soldier-died-saving-drug-smuggling-migrants-identified\">Bishop E. Evans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\"><\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Jacqui Heinrich asked at a press briefing if the White House bears responsibility for the young National Guardsman&#8217;s death given that the <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/over-170-000-migrants-amass-at-us-mexico-border-anticipating-bides-easing-of-border-restrictions-report\">surge of illegal migrants<\/a> overwhelming the United States-Mexico border has been one of <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/breaking-amid-multiple-crises-biden-shops-and-goes-for-ice-cream\">many crises plaguing the administration<\/a> since President Joe Biden took office.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;I would note that the National Guard works for the states, so he is an employee of the Texas National Guard, and his efforts and his operation were directed by there, not by the federal government in this effort and this apparatus,&#8221; Psaki answered.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Psaki maintained that &#8220;we have long-stated that our immigration system is broken,&#8221; adding that there &#8220;needs to be more done to invest in smarter security, to have a more effective asylum-processing system.&#8221; Psaki further offered, &#8220;And we would welcome any efforts for any elected official to work with us on that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>At another point during the presser, Psaki claimed that former President Donald Trump invested &#8220;billions of dollars in a border wall that was never going to work or be effective.&#8221; <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Many critics of the administration have linked the chaos at the border to Biden-era policies, such as halting border wall construction and rolling back the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) program <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/bidens-dhs-to-restart-remain-in-mexico-trump-era-policy-in-november-after-court-order\">known as &#8220;Remain in Mexico.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Psaki: &#8220;The former president invested billions of dollars in a border wall that was never going to work or be effective&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7bvKTXjqu2\">pic.twitter.com\/7bvKTXjqu2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TPostMillennial\/status\/1518678588060491777?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 25, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>During the exchange, Psaki was grilled over what the federal government might do in the future to help manage Biden&#8217;s border crisis. Heinrich cited local border communities as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/26-states-create-strike-force-to-secure-southern-border\">state leadership<\/a> who&#8217;ve requested more assistance and manpower from the federal government to resolve the issue hitting close to home.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;If we just dial it back a few years to kind of what we inherited here, the former president invested billions of dollars in a border wall that was never going to work or be effective,&#8221; Psaki said, &#8220;instead of working towards comprehensive immigration reform.&#8221; She said that Biden proposed investing in &#8220;smarter&#8221; security at the border, &#8220;something he&#8217;d be happy to work with governors on and certainly we&#8217;re open to having that conversation whenever they&#8217;re ready to do that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Psaki is grilled over what the federal government might do to manage the crisis at the border:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we just dial it back a few years to kind of what we inherited here, the former president invested billions of dollars in a border wall that was never going to work&#8230;&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DbDdmJJQrG\">pic.twitter.com\/DbDdmJJQrG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TPostMillennial\/status\/1518679802571599875?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 25, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Bishop&#8217;s body was recovered Monday after a multi-day interagency search. He went missing and was presumed dead following the rescue attempt Friday.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) released a statement on social media Monday:<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;We are heartbroken to learn of the death of SPC Bishop Evans. He heroically served his state &#038; country. I want to thank all rescue teams that worked to locate this soldier. Join me &#038; Cecilia in praying for the family &#038; friends of SPC Evans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We are heartbroken to learn of the death of SPC Bishop Evans.<\/p>\n<p>He heroically served his state &#038; country. <\/p>\n<p>I want to thank all rescue teams that worked to locate this soldier.<\/p>\n<p>Join me &#038; Cecilia in praying for the family &#038; friends of SPC Evans. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xwSZlqEGhT\">pic.twitter.com\/xwSZlqEGhT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GregAbbott_TX\/status\/1518636250172907520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 25, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;Our National Guard soldiers risk their lives every day to serve and protect others, and we are eternally grateful for the way SPC Evans heroically served his state and country,&#8221; Abbott expressed in the press release on Bishop&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>The two illegal immigrants that Evans was attempting to rescue were &#8220;involved in illicit transnational narcotics trafficking,&#8221; according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/tmd.texas.gov\/texas-national-guard-soldier-missing-update-2\">Texas Military Department<\/a>. The pair remain in the custody of US Customs and Border Patrol.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki was asked on Monday if the Biden administration believes it bears any responsibility for the death of the Texas National Guard soldier who<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1453622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1453622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1453622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1453622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1453622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}