{"id":24998,"date":"2021-09-24T15:05:12","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T19:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=24998"},"modified":"2021-09-24T15:05:15","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T19:05:15","slug":"biden-press-secretary-shades-the-truth-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2021\/09\/24\/biden-press-secretary-shades-the-truth-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"WH Press Secretary Misleads the Americans About Haitian Migrants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There is little doubt that White House Press Secretary\nJen Psaki has a very difficult job. After all, she has to publicly defend an\nadministration that has been going from failure to disaster \u2013 whether it\u2019s the\nborder crisis or Afghanistan \u2013 and is compelled to rationalize the irrational,\ndefend the indefensible, and excuse the incompetent. No matter the salary, that\nis a job most of us would not want. However, Ms. Psaki\u2019s insult to the American\npublic\u2019s intelligence, during a September 20 White House press briefing<\/a>,\nmakes one feel considerably more frustration than pity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the briefing, Fox News\u2019 White House correspondent Peter Doocy asked Psaki about the Haitian illegal migrants at the Texas-Mexico border. \u201cIs somebody asking,\u201d Doocy inquired, \u201cthe foreign nationals who are walking in in Del Rio, Texas, and setting up camps on this side of the border for proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Fox News correspondent also pointed out that \u201cthat is the policy for people who fly into the country\u201d legally (see here<\/a> and here<\/a> for details), not to mention President Biden\u2019s recent COVID-19 vaccine mandate<\/a> for some Americans. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Psaki responded absurdly that the illegal migrants are\n\u201cnot intending to stay here for a lengthy period of time,\u201d as though hundreds\nof thousands of people are embarking on an arduous and dangerous trek,\nentrusting themselves and their children to smugglers, in order to spend a few\ndays at Disneyland before heading home. \u201cIt\u2019s not the same thing,\u201d she\ncontinued.  \u201cThese are individuals \u2026 we\nare expelling \u2026 based on Title 42, specifically because of COVID, because we\nwant to prevent a scenario where large numbers of people are gathering, posing\na threat to the community and also to the migrants themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, the vast majority of illegal migrants do intend to stay in the U.S. for as long as possible. The pro-mass-migration lobby\u2019s own propaganda<\/a> shows that. If illegal migrants intended to \u201ccircle back\u201d to their homelands after a short sojourn in our country then the lobby\u2019s constant push amnesty, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), and other ways to make it easier for illegal aliens to remain in the U.S. as long as possible would not make sense. Perhaps Psaki misspoke, and meant to say that the U.S. government does not intend for the Haitian migrants to stay here \u201cfor a lengthy period of time,\u201d but even that is doubtful in light of the fact that the administration has all but ceased deportations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As far as Title 42 expulsions are concerned, the White House press secretary is telling what at best can be described as a half-truth \u2013 something which most people would probably call a lie. Yes, some<\/a> Haitian illegal migrants (nearly all of whom have been living outside of Haiti for years) have indeed been sent back<\/a> to their homeland, much to the dismay<\/a> of the pro-mass-migration radical left that believes Joe Biden isn\u2019t doing enough to dismantle our borders and immigration laws. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, many Haitians have not been expelled. One media outlet pointed out that \u201c[m]any Haitian migrants in Del Rio are being released in the United States, according to two U.S. officials, undercutting the Biden administration\u2019s public statements that the thousands in the camp faced immediate expulsion to Haiti. Haitians have been freed on a \u2018very, very large scale\u2019 in recent days, one official said Tuesday. The official, who was not authorized to discuss the matter and thus spoke on condition of anonymity, put the figure in the thousands. Many have been released with notices to appear at an immigration office within 60 days, an outcome that requires less processing time from Border Patrol agents than ordering an appearance in immigration court and points to the speed at which authorities are moving.\u201d The media outlet reporting this was not Breitbart or Fox News. It was the Associated Press<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Admittedly, expelling some is better than expelling\nnone. But it still sends a message to hundreds of thousands of prospective\nillegal migrants that there is a strong chance that they will get in and get\nreleased, rather than an overwhelming guarantee that they\u2019ll be caught and\nimmediately deported. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why mislead the American public about how many illegal migrants from Haiti were released into our country? President Biden\u2019s immigration and border policies are very unpopular<\/a> with the American people, and his approval ratings have also been suffering due to the administration\u2019s disastrous handling of the Afghanistan pullout, so it may be understandable that the White House wants to lull Americans into complacency by pretending to be tough on the illegal migrants. But a lie is still a lie, and the American people deserve better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is little doubt that White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki has a very difficult job. After all, she has to publicly defend an administration that has been going from failure to disaster \u2013 whether it\u2019s the border crisis or Afghanistan \u2013 and is compelled to rationalize the irrational, defend the indefensible, and excuse the<\/p>\n

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