{"id":910485,"date":"2021-10-22T15:58:54","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T19:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=910485"},"modified":"2021-10-22T15:58:55","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T19:58:55","slug":"psaki-says-the-last-time-biden-was-at-the-border-was-driving-by-it-in-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/psaki-says-the-last-time-biden-was-at-the-border-was-driving-by-it-in-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Psaki Says The Last Time Biden Was At The Border Was Driving By It In 2008"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fpsaki-says-the-last-time-biden-was-at-the-border-was-driving-by-it-in-2008%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=910485&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<p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki defended on Friday President Joe Biden\u2019s no-show at the southern border, informing reporters that Biden did, in fact, visit the border while on the campaign trail in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy did President Biden say he has been to the border?\u201d Fox News\u2019 Senior White House Correspondent Peter Doocy asked, referring to Biden\u2019s CNN Townhall Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, Peter, as you may have seen, there\u2019s been reporting that he did drive through the border when he was on the campaign trail in 2008, and he is certainly familiar with the fact, and it stuck with him, the fact that in El Paso the border goes right through the center of town,\u201d Psaki replied. \u201cBut the most important thing everyone should know and understand is that the president has worked on these issues throughout his entire career and is well versed in every aspect of our immigration system, including the border.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"9.2298850574713\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">DOOCY: \u201cWhy did President Biden say he has been to the border?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Psaki: \u201cThere\u2019s been reporting that he did drive through the border when he was on the campaign trail in 2008.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pMPtyxCNUE\">pic.twitter.com\/pMPtyxCNUE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DailyCaller\/status\/1451617673926828036?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 22, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Psaki then touted Biden\u2019s travels as vice president, noting he went to Mexico and Central America \u201cten times to address border issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe does not need a visit to the border to know what a mess was left by the last administration, that\u2019s his view,\u201d she continued. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/21\/missouri-texas-sue-biden-administration-over-border-wall\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Missouri, Texas Sue Biden Administration Over Border Wall)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/21\/joe-biden-cnn-town-hall-southern-border\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">addressed<\/a> concerns he should visit the southern border during the town hall Thursday night after a Republican law student questioned his absence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know [the southern border] well, I guess I should go down, but the whole point of it is I haven\u2019t had a whole hell of a lot of time to get down,\u201d the president said. \u201cI\u2019ve been spending time going around, looking at the $900 billion damage done by hurricanes and floods and weather and traveling around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Border crossings have spiked since Biden took office, with agents encountering 17,097 migrants in August of 2021 compared with just 694 in August of 2020, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/cis.org\/Bensman\/Next-Del-Rio-Mass-Migration-Crisis-Already-Brewing-Yuma-Ariz-and-About-Get-Worse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Todd Bensman<\/a> with the Center for Immigration Studies, an immigration-skeptical think tank. Migrants also <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/13\/migrants-thank-joe-biden-illegal-crossing-border-immigration-policies-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told<\/a> the Daily Caller they \u201cthank [Biden] very much\u201d for his immigration policies which they say encouraged them to make the trek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki defended on Friday President Joe Biden\u2019s no-show at the southern border, informing reporters that Biden did, in fact, visit the border while on the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-910485","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\/910485","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=910485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910485\/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=910485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}