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Psaki: Biden Drove Through the Border ‘When He Was on the Campaign Trail in 2008’
(CNSNews.com) - White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Friday that President Joe Biden “did drive through the border” while on the campaign trail in 2008.
As CNSNews.com reported, when asked Thursday whether he has plan to visit the southern border, Biden told a CNN town hall, “I've been there before, and I haven't -- I mean, I know it well. I guess I should go down.”
Fox News White House Correspondent Peter Doocy asked Psaki, “Following up on something else the president said last night. Why did President Biden say he has been to the border?”
PSAKI: Well Peter, as you may have seen, there’s 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 - with the fact that in El Paso, the border goes right through the center of town, but what 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.
That includes when he was vice president, and he went to Mexico and Central America 10 times to address border issues and talk about what we can do to reduce the number of migrants who are coming to the border. He worked in a bipartisan manner with senators like Ted Kennedy, Harry Reid, John McCain and others to push for comprehensive immigration reform. He does not need a visit to the border to know what a mess was left by the last administration. That’s his view.
DOOCY: Does that count as a visit? He said, I’ve been there before. You’re saying he drove by for a few minutes? Does that count?
PSAKI: What is the root cause? Where are people coming from who are coming to the border, Peter?
DOOCY: The president said that he --
PSAKI: I’m asking you a question, because I think people should understand the context. Where do people-- where to people come--
DOOCY: I’m asking you--
PSAKI: Okay, I’ll answer it for you. People come from Central America and Mexico to go to the border. The president has been to those countries 10 times to talk about border issues. There is a focus right now on a photo-op. The president does not believe a photo-op is the same as solutions. That may be a difference he has with Republicans.
DOOCY: But that’s not what he said either. He said, I guess I should go down. So does he think that he needs a photo-op? Is that what he’s saying?
PSAKI: He doesn’t, and that’s a fundamental disagreement he has. I would say the former president went to the border at least once, maybe more. You may know the numbers. How did that immigration policy result, Peter? That immigration policy resulted in separating kids from their parents, building a border wall that’s feckless and that costs billions of dollars for taxpayers. The president fundamentally disagrees on how we need to approach the immigration issue.
DOOCY: Has anything changed at the border between 2008 when he drove by and 2021?
PSAKI: Aside from the fact that migrants are still coming to the border through the course of Democratic and Republican presidents and the need to reform the immigration system is even farther along overdue? No, but we need to work with Democrats and Republicans to get that done.
Biden: 'I Guess I Should' Visit the Border; 'I Haven't Had a Whole Hell of a Lot of Time to Get Down'
(CNSNews.com) - "Do you have plans to visit the southern border?" Anderson Cooper asked President Joe Biden at a CNN town hall Thursday night.
"I've been there before, and I haven't -- I mean, I know it well. I guess I should go down," Biden responded. (For the record, it's been many years since Biden visited the U.S.-Mexico border, if he ever has, that is.)
"But the whole point of it is, I haven't had a whole hell of a lot of time to get down," Biden continued:
I've been spending time going around looking at the $900 billion worth of damage done by -- by hurricanes and floods and weather and traveling around the world.
But, I plan on -- now, my wife Jill has been down. She's been on both sides of the river. She's seen the circumstances there. She's looked into those places.
You notice you're not seeing a lot of pictures of kids lying on top of one another with, you know, with -- you know, looks like tarps on top of them. We've been able to deal with that. We've been able to significantly increase funding through the HHS, Health and Human Services, to provide shelter for these kids and people.
But, there's much more to be done. And -- and I realize -- I think it is -- it's a thing that concerns me the most about being able to get control of it, because I got to, number one, get enough funding to provide for immediate determination of whether or not someone that is, in fact, legitimately claiming a right to stay in the country because of legitimate fears, and purely for economic reasons to get in line but not get in the country.
So what we're doing is bringing a lot of folks who are coming in, and they're doing ankle bracelets instead of people being sent back, depending on whether or not their claim appears to be legitimate.
Biden told the woman who asked the question that his administration is "making more progress than you think" on border issues, including the handling of minors. He said that only 504 children are now in the custody of the Border Patrol, down from 5,000, he said.
(Thousands of undocumented children have been released and shipped to other areas of the country, sometimes in the dark of night.)
Biden also took credit for devising a program "where we now provide funding" to Central American countries "to change the circumstance on the ground."
"For example, you're in a circumstance where, you know, people don't just sit around their kitchen table and say, I've got a great idea. Let's sell everything we have, give it to coyote, let them -- take us across the border, drop us in a desert, place they don't want us, won't that be fun?
"People do it because they're desperate. They're desperate," Biden said. "And what I've been trying to do, and I'm trying to do in this legislation as well, is get funding so we have funding for immigration officers to be able to hear cases immediately of whether or not they justify having asylum granted to them."
(He meant that immigration officers would hear asylum claims in the countries before would-be migrants started their journey.)
Some Democrats and immigration activists have blasted the Biden administration for maintaining Title 42, a public health authority implemented by the Trump administration's CDC, that requires the immediate deportation of adult aliens because of the COVID pandemic.
Biden defended it on Thursday: "We maintained that because of the extent of the -- of the continued extent of COVID in those countries from which people are coming. It's very, very high. "And so, we maintained the policy. We're not sending back children. We send back adults, and we send back large families. But we don't send back children in that circumstance.
"And so, that's why I have a proposal to provide for over a billion doses of COVID vaccine to the rest of the world, including a significant portion to Latin and Central America," Biden said.
Record 2 Million Migrants Cross Border Between Ports of Entry During Past 12 Months
More than two million migrants illegally crossed the border from Mexico into the United States during Fiscal Year 2021. The crossings include 1.66 million apprehended by Border Patrol agents and an estimated 400,000 classified as “got aways.”
Border Patrol agents apprehended a record-setting 1,659,206 migrants who illegally crossed the border from Mexico during the recently ended fiscal year, according to the Southwest Border Land Encounters report released on Friday by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials. Additionally, nearly 400,000 more migrants are estimated to be “got aways,” information received from Border Patrol officials revealed.
“The men and women of CBP continued to rise admirably to the challenge, despite the strain associated with operating during a global pandemic that has claimed far too many lives among our frontline personnel,” CBP Acting Commissioner Troy Miller said in a written statement. “CBP will continue its work to ensure safety and security at our borders, while managing a fair and orderly immigration system, and facilitating the legitimate trade and travel that is vital to the American economy.”
The apprehension of nearly 1.66 million migrants who illegally crossed the border between ports of entry represents an increase of nearly 315 percent over the previous fiscal year’s total of 400,651, the report indicates. The apprehension of migrant families skyrocketed by more than 763 percent. Unaccompanied minor apprehensions jumped by 374 percent and single adults by 235 percent.
The Rio Grande Valley Sector continues to lead the nine sectors located along the southwest border with Mexico. Agents in this sector apprehended nearly 550,00 migrants — an increase of nearly 506 percent over the previous year’s total of just over 90,000.
This is followed by the Del Rio Sector with nearly 260,000 apprehensions — an increase of 543 percent over the 40,342 apprehended in FY2020.
The five Texas-based sectors account for 1,151,796 of the southwest border apprehensions (69 percent). Those include more than 683,000 single adults, 355,000 family units, and 113,700 unaccompanied minors.
“This year’s extraordinary migration wave has posed dire logistical, humanitarian and political challenges for President Biden during the first months of his administration, which promised to usher in an “orderly” and “humane” border policy,” CBS News reported.
“I’ve never seen it as bad as what it is right now,” National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd said in an article published by NPR. “We just don’t have the manpower and resources to do what we need to do to both detect and apprehend everything that’s crossing the border.”
Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior news contributor for the Breitbart Texas-Border team. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Price is a regular panelist on Fox 26 Houston’s What’s Your Point? Sunday-morning talk show. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX and Face
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