White Home press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre stated there are “completely different definitions” of what it means to close down the border when pressed if President Biden’s current immigration rhetoric is any completely different from feedback then-President Trump made in 2018 which critics cited as “racist.”
“Again within the winter of 2018 and the spring of 2019, President Trump vowed to close down the border with Mexico utilizing nearly the an identical language that the president used on Friday. Many, many, if not most, if not virtually all Democrats known as that xenophobic and even racist. Why should not individuals make the identical conclusion about this president’s menace to close down your entire border with Mexico?” a reporter requested the press secretary on Monday.
“We imagine the brand new enforcement instruments that at the moment do not exist that we imagine shall be a part of this bipartisan settlement shall be honest. We imagine … it’s going to be robust, however it is going to be honest,” Jean-Pierre responded.
She was then pressed that Biden didn’t say final week that the administration would use “enhanced enforcement to enhance the processing of individuals on the border” and was as a substitute a lot stronger by saying he would shut the border down.
FLASHBACK: TRUMP’S BORDER WALL WAS CALLED ‘RACIST’ AND ‘ANTI-IMMIGRANT’ BY LIBERAL MEDIA FOR YEARS
White Home press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre provides remarks on the press briefing on Jan. 24, 2024. (Andrew Thomas/NurPhoto by way of Getty Pictures)
“Why is not that the identical factor that Trump did?” the reporter questioned after a brief back-and-forth with Jean-Pierre.
“There are completely different definitions, proper, of what that appears like, of what truly shutting down the border appears to be like like, proper? So, we’ll allow them to work via it. We do not know what that appears like precisely. What we’re asking for, what the president needs to see, is that we take care of the challenges on the border, that now we have a possibility to take care of what is going on on, the safety, and make it possible for now we have the funding and the assets to take care of what we’re seeing on the border,” she responded.
“There are completely different definitions to what that appears like.”
BIDEN ADMINISTRATION ACCUSED OF HYPOCRISY FOR PROPOSING BORDER WALL AMID MIGRANT CRISIS
Biden on Friday vowed to “shut down the border” if Congress passes a bipartisan immigration deal he stated would give him the “emergency authority” to cease the push of migrants which have been flooding the border throughout his administration.
“For too lengthy, everyone knows the border’s been damaged,” he stated. “It is long gone time to repair it.”
President Biden (Al Drago/Bloomberg by way of Getty Pictures)
“What’s been negotiated would — if handed into legislation — be the hardest and fairest set of reforms to safe the border we’ve ever had in our nation,” Biden stated. “It might give me, as president, a brand new emergency authority to close down the border when it turns into overwhelmed. And if provided that authority, I’d use it the day I signal the invoice into legislation.”
BIDEN PROMISES TO ‘SHUT DOWN’ BORDER IF CONGRESS APPROVES BILL GOP CLAIMS WOULD ‘INCENTIVIZE ILLEGAL ALIENS’
Trump was slammed by Democrats and different critics as a “racist” in November 2018 and once more in March 2019 for threatening to close down the border if Mexico didn’t cease individuals from illegally crossing into the U.S.
“We shall be pressured to shut the Southern Border fully if the Obstructionist Democrats don’t give us the cash to complete the Wall & additionally change the ridiculous immigration legal guidelines that our Nation is saddled with. Arduous to imagine there was a Congress & President who would approve!” Trump stated amid a sequence of tweets in 2018.
Former President Trump (Drew Angerer/Getty Pictures)
“If Mexico doesn’t instantly cease ALL unlawful immigration coming into the US via our Southern Border, I shall be CLOSING the Border, or massive sections of the Border, subsequent week,” Trump once more tweeted in 2019.
Critics attacked such a plan as racist, together with the Southern Poverty Regulation Heart in 2019, which stated the plan was “unlawful” and accused Trump of “utilizing scare techniques to color lawful immigration as a safety menace.”
