{"id":1779468,"date":"2022-12-18T15:47:55","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T20:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1779468"},"modified":"2022-12-18T15:47:58","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T20:47:58","slug":"biden-adviser-confronted-why-wasnt-border-visit-worth-his-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-adviser-confronted-why-wasnt-border-visit-worth-his-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Adviser Confronted: Why Wasn\u2019t Border Visit \u2018Worth His Time?\u2019"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fbiden-adviser-confronted-why-wasnt-border-visit-worth-his-time%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=1779468&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 journalist pressed a top White House adviser Sunday on why President Joe Biden declined to visit the southern border during a recent visit to Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>Margaret Brennan, moderator of CBS News\u2019s \u201cFace the Nation,\u201d challenged Keisha Lance Bottoms, director of the White House\u2019s Office of Public Engagement, to provide an explanation after Biden said earlier this month he was forgoing a trip to the border because \u201cthere are more important things going on.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/biden-defends-skipping-border-visit-arizona-says-more-important-things\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">As noted by Fox News<\/a>, Biden has yet to visit the U.S.-Mexico border during his presidency as illegal crossings hit record highs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/keisha-lance-bottoms-face-the-nation-transcript-12-18-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">After Bottoms argued<\/a>, \u201csimply because people don\u2019t see the president at the border, doesn\u2019t mean that he\u2019s not working,\u201d Brennan retorted, \u201cRight. But why doesn\u2019t he go to the border? He was just in Arizona, why wasn\u2019t it worth his time?\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Why doesn&#8217;t he go to the [southern] border?&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/margbrennan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@margbrennan<\/a> asks senior White House adviser Keisha Lance Bottoms on President Biden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can&#8217;t speak to why he has or has not gone,&#8221; she says. &#8220;But what the president has done is continue to lean in on this immigration issue.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dkirUnxikl\">pic.twitter.com\/dkirUnxikl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FaceTheNation\/status\/1604533307546402821?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 18, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, you have to remember, Margaret, when the president travels it is not like you or I jumping on an airplane and getting off and going to our destination, everything comes to a halt,\u201d Bottoms said. \u201cSo all of these things are in consideration for the president, is that the best use of resources, all of the resources that will be diverted on the ground when the president makes a visit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brennan followed up, asking, \u201cIs that why he didn\u2019t go?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t speak to why he has or has not gone \u2014 I\u2019m just speaking to the fact that it\u2019s a bit more disruptive for the president of the United States to travel than you or I,\u201d Bottoms said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut what the president has done is continue to lean in on this immigration issue,\u201d Bottoms added. \u201cIt\u2019s something that he ran on, and what we know over the past two years, every single thing that the president has run on, he\u2019s put time and resources into addressing that. So immigration, we know, is a problem that he did not create. Our issues with immigration are decades-long issues, and he will continue to lean the end through the White House and through Congress to get comprehensive immigration reform done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A flashpoint in the immigration debate right now is the fate of Title 42, which allows U.S. border agents to turn away migrants and asylum-seekers on an expedited basis because of a public health emergency \u2014 in this case, the COVID pandemic. Republican-led states are trying to keep the Trump-era policy in place as the Biden administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/12\/15\/politics\/title-42-plan-biden\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">works to wind it down<\/a>. Amid concerns about a surge in crossings, Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) said on ABC\u2019s \u201cThis Week\u201d that ending Title 42 would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/abbott-sounds-the-alarm-about-the-end-of-title-42-total-chaos-catastrophic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bring \u201ctotal chaos\u201d<\/a> to the southern border. The policy is set to expire on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration needs to help of Congress to act on this \u201cglobal issue,\u201d Bottoms said during the CBS interview.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Title 42 goes away, we will then go back to Title 8,\u201d she said, \u201cwhich allows for a process which is the reason why the administration has asked Congress to fund more than $3 billion to help us provide the resources that will be needed to process these migrants to make sure that people are treated humanely, to make sure that the bordering communities have the resources that they need.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A journalist pressed a top White House adviser Sunday on why President Joe Biden declined to visit the southern border during a recent visit to Arizona. 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