{"id":1641019,"date":"2022-09-14T13:33:49","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T17:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1641019"},"modified":"2022-09-14T13:34:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T17:34:13","slug":"everyone-knows-the-southern-border-is-worse-under-biden-than-trump-but-karine-jean-pierre-is-lying-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/everyone-knows-the-southern-border-is-worse-under-biden-than-trump-but-karine-jean-pierre-is-lying-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyone Knows The Southern Border Is Worse Under Biden Than Trump, But Karine Jean-Pierre Is Lying Anyway"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/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%2Feveryone-knows-the-southern-border-is-worse-under-biden-than-trump-but-karine-jean-pierre-is-lying-anyway%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=1641019&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>It\u2019s no secret that White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/09\/07\/karine-jean-pierre-is-a-terrible-white-house-press-secretary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">notoriously bad at her job<\/a>. But her latest comments about the Biden administration\u2019s failure to secure the U.S. southern border are so beyond parody that they\u2019d give the impression that Tuesday was Opposite Day at the White House.<\/p>\n<p>While speaking to reporters at a press briefing, Jean-Pierre laughably claimed the Biden administration is \u201cdoing a lot more [than former President Donald Trump] to secure the border and could be doing even more if Republicans would stop their obstruction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration \u201clargely just tried to build a wall \u2026 and couldn\u2019t even finish that in four years,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"lNQAhiE570MrjocavUTqmLPWJ8x3XfgBenVFtG\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jean-Pierre: &#8220;We are doing a lot more [than the Trump administration] to secure the border and could be doing even more if Republicans would stop their obstruction.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/smSidn9VDi\">pic.twitter.com\/smSidn9VDi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1569759242810163200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 13, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The notion that Biden has done more to secure the U.S. southern border than his predecessor is such a far-fetched lie that not even Jean-Pierre herself could earnestly believe it. Since taking office in January 2021, Joe Biden has done just about everything you can think of to make it easier for illegal immigrants to unlawfully enter the United States through the U.S.-Mexico border.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/04\/22\/bidens-open-border-policies-are-deadly\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> by Federalist Staff Writer Jordan Boyd, \u201c[w]hen Biden assumed office, he moved to eradicate many of the Trump administration\u2019s border security policies such as the \u2018Remain in Mexico\u2019 policy which required asylum seekers to await court decisions in Mexico, and immediately halted construction on the border wall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Biden also sought to end Title 42, \u201ca policy designed to expedite the expulsion of illegal border crossers during the Covid-19 pandemic, and which\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/14\/if-biden-cared-about-border-security-ice-would-arrest-more-border-criminals-instead-of-release-them\/\">border agencies<\/a>\u00a0were\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/16\/biden-weakens-border-as-illegal-crossings-cartel-unrest-grows\/\">barely enforcing anyway<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the Biden administration\u2019s intentional dismantling of U.S. immigration policy, illegal crossings along the southern border have skyrocketed to unprecedented levels. In the 2021 fiscal year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/newsroom\/national-media-release\/cbp-releases-operational-fiscal-year-2021-statistics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)<\/a> \u201crecorded a total of 1.72 million enforcement encounters,\u201d which included \u201c146,054 encounters of unaccompanied children, 478,492 encounters of individuals in family units, and 1,098,500 encounters of single adults.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite the massive increase in border crossings, the Biden administration has largely refused to prosecute migrants for violating U.S. immigration laws, with The Washington Free Beacon <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/biden-halts-prosecutions-for-most-illegal-border-crossings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reporting<\/a> a \u201cnearly 80 percent\u201d decrease in FY2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust 2,896 migrants apprehended on the southwest border were transferred into U.S. Marshals Service custody in the 2021 fiscal year,\u201d the Free Beacon reported. \u201cIn the 2020 fiscal year, 13,213 migrants were transferred to federal authorities for prosecution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Think things couldn\u2019t get any worse? Guess again. In <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/07\/18\/june-shatters-old-record-with-more-than-207k-arrests-at-bidens-open-border\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">June 2022<\/a> alone, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/newsroom\/stats\/southwest-land-border-encounters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">207,416<\/a> [illegal immigrants] were arrested trying to illegally cross the border,\u201d making the month\u2019s tally \u201cthe highest number ever recorded in June since \u2026 U.S. Customs and Border Protection began\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/assets\/documents\/2020-Jan\/U.S.%20Border%20Patrol%20Monthly%20Apprehensions%20%28FY%202000%20-%20FY%202019%29_1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tracking apprehensions<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Over the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/12\/bidens-border-policy-is-taking-us-back-to-pre-9-11-homeland-security\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">past two years<\/a> combined, CBP has \u201capprehended\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/08\/30\/abbott-81-suspects-on-terror-watchlist-found-at-border-in-biden-era\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">81 known and suspected terrorists<\/a>\u00a0illegally crossing our southern border,\u201d with an additional <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/national\/nearly-5-million-foreign-nationals-have-entered-the-u-s-illegally-since-biden-took-office\/article_dfaa6376-1e25-11ed-b23d-77891ec8afbf.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">900,000 \u201cgotaways<\/a>\u201d having \u201csuccessfully evaded the Border Patrol\u201d during that same time frame.<\/p>\n<p>At their current rate, 2022 border crossings have already surpassed 2021 levels and are <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/08\/16\/border-arrests-on-pace-to-top-2-million-for-fiscal-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">on track<\/a> to eclipse 2 million for the first time ever.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to illegal immigration, CBP drug seizures have also dramatically risen since Biden took office. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/newsroom\/national-media-release\/cbp-releases-operational-fiscal-year-2021-statistics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FY2021<\/a>, CBP apprehended approximately \u201c624,500 pounds of drugs,\u201d with seizures of cocaine, methamphetamine, and fentanyl increasing 68 percent, 7 percent, and 134 percent, respectively (heroin seizures dropped a slight 6 percent).<\/p>\n<p>While Jean-Pierre insists that Biden\u2019s administration is doing more to secure the southern border than Trump\u2019s, CBP officials on the ground in U.S. border states disagree, with one agent telling <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/juliorosas\/2022\/09\/14\/border-patrol-reacts-to-wh-press-secretarys-false-statement-about-the-border-n2613055\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Town Hall<\/a> \u201cI have been working for the United States Border Patrol under four administrations\u201d and \u201cI have never before seen the border this bad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe amount of illegal entries is at an all-time high, Border Patrol\u2019s morale is the worst I have ever seen under President Biden,\u201d the agent said.<\/p>\n<p>Fellow agent and spokesman for the National Border Patrol Council Chris Cabrera made similar remarks, saying that he thinks it\u2019s \u201cobvious that the current administration has done nothing to reduce the flow of illegal crossings into the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn fact, this administration reversed many programs the past administration had in place that actually worked. The state of the border under the current administration is the worst I have seen in over 20 years. Sadly, Miss Jean-Pierre has no Idea what she is talking about,\u201d Cabrera said.<\/p>\n<p>The clear-as-day lie from Jean-Pierre came a few days after America\u2019s cheery motivational speaker and Vice President Kamala Harris issued the same falsehood during an interview with Chuck Todd on NBC\u2019s \u201cMeet the Press.\u201d During the interview, Harris <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/biden-doing-more-than-trump-border\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claimed<\/a> that the country has \u201ca secure [southern] border\u201d and that \u201cthat is a priority for any nation, including ours and our administration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there is no question that we have to do what the president and I asked Congress to do, the first request we made: Pass a bill to create a pathway to citizenship,\u201d Harris said. \u201cThe border is secure, but we also have a broken immigration system, in particular, over the last four years before we came in, and it needs to be fixed.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Shawn Fleetwood is a Staff Writer for The Federalist and a graduate of the University of Mary Washington. 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