{"id":1627595,"date":"2022-08-31T06:04:11","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T10:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1627595"},"modified":"2022-08-31T06:04:15","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T10:04:15","slug":"white-house-claims-illegal-aliens-arent-walking-across-border-despite-contradicting-video-footage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-claims-illegal-aliens-arent-walking-across-border-despite-contradicting-video-footage\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Claims Illegal Aliens Aren\u2019t \u2018Walking Across Border\u2019 Despite Contradicting Video Footage"},"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-claims-illegal-aliens-arent-walking-across-border-despite-contradicting-video-footage%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=1627595&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--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-white-house\">White House<\/a> press secretary\u00a0Karine Jean-Pierre has claimed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-illegal-aliens\">illegal aliens<\/a> are not able to just \u201cwalk over\u201d the southern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-border\">border<\/a> and enter the United States, despite video footage showing immigrants doing exactly that.<\/p>\n<p>Jean-Pierre made the comments at a White House <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/press-briefings\/2022\/08\/29\/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre-august-29-2022\/\">press briefing<\/a> on Monday in response to a question regarding unvaccinated illegal aliens from Fox News reporter\u00a0Peter Doocy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomebody unvaccinated comes over on a plane. You say that\u2019s not OK. Somebody walks into Texas or Arizona unvaccinated, they\u2019re allowed to stay? Why?\u201d Doocy asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut that\u2019s not how it works,\u201d Jean-Pierre responded. \u201cIt\u2019s not like somebody walks over.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Doocy then noted that \u201cthousands of people are walking\u201d over the border on a daily basis, of which some hand themselves over to border control agents, while others manage to evade law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0press secretary again doubled down on her narrative that this is not the case, before going on to\u00a0cite moves by the Biden administration to combat the illegal immigrant crisis, including installing\u00a0new border technology and setting up joint protocols with Mexico and Guatemala to catch more human traffickers.<\/p>\n<p>She went on to state that officials have \u201calready made over 3,000 arrests in the first three months of launching an unprecedented anti-smuggling campaign with regional partners\u201d and have secured \u201crecord levels of funding for the Department of Homeland Security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jean-Pierre also noted that the administration has established \u201cdedicated immigration judges\u201d in an effort to speed up the process of immigrants having their cases heard.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/07\/03\/Texas-migrants-1200x800.jpg\"><\/a> 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 <\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0press secretary also referred to contrasts between the Biden administration and the Trump administration, noting that the former president had focused on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House press secretary\u00a0Karine Jean-Pierre has claimed that illegal aliens are not able to just \u201cwalk over\u201d 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 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1627595","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\/1627595","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\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1627595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627595\/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=1627595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1627595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1627595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}