Like Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address expressed, “the world will little note, nor long remember” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre’s Friday remarks.
President Joe Biden’s spokeswoman did not deny reports that the administration is considering detaining families of illegal aliens until their immigration hearing.
MSNBC’s “All in With Chris Hayes” host asked Jean-Pierre about the alleged immigration policy proposal, but she said she would not comment on rumors. Hayes noted she would quickly deny the administration was considering separating children of illegal aliens from their parents, which the press secretary agreed she would.
“I think if I said are you going to do child separation again, you would say, ‘No, we’re not going to do child separation,’ right?” asked Hayes.
Jean-Pierre nodded in agreement with the host’s hypothetical. Hayes then noted that her earlier refusal to address speculation about renewing the family detention policy was an implicit acknowledgement that the Biden administration was considering it.
Before that exchange, the press secretary delivered a boilerplate statement that used many words that imparted no useful information.
“What we’re going to promise is that we’re going to do this,” Jean-Pierre told the program host. “We’re going to move forward with a, with this kind of system, this immigration system, that has been gutted, really truly gutted, by the last administration.”
Border Patrol agents have reported millions of encounters with illegal aliens along the southwest border with Mexico, yet Jean-Pierre blamed former President Donald Trump for the country’s immigration problems.
“We’re gonna move forward and do it in a humane way. We’re gonna do it in a safe way. And we’re going to do it in the way that moves us forward,” she continued. “And so what we have been seeing, what we have been dealing with, again, is trying to fix the damage that the last administration do–did.”
“What we have done is we have opened the path to – we have opened the path to make sure that people have a way to get, to come through and to do it in a legal pathway,” concluded the press secretary.
Conservatives in the Twitterverse went berserk after her appearance on MSNBC.
“I transcribed her answer and it’s a complete word salad,” declared NewsBusters analyst Kevin Tober in a Twitter post that included her response to Hayes.
“’We’re gonna do it in the way that moves us forward,'” posted writer Doug Powers. “Emptier words have never been spoken by anybody not named Kamala Harris.” His remark topped a link to video of the MSNBC interview.
Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) remarked on Twitter that the Biden administration is making illegal immigration legal by not enforcing existing U.S. immigration laws.
“Not even the White House @PressSec can provide a clear defense of Biden’s indefensible open borders agenda,” commented Chad Gilmartin, a spokesman for House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).
Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA) seemed angry with the press secretary’s remarks.
“What’s compassionate about 880 deaths crossing last FY?” asked the congresswoman, “or 107,000 US opioid deaths (70% fentanyl or FA)? 1.2 M known gotaways that may be cartel or terrorists? or rape trees, child sex trafficking?”
“How many more deaths or rapes before you end this humane path forward?” she asked at the conclusion of her Twitter post.
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