White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre opened her mouth and inserted her foot the other day when asked by a Fox News reporter why unvaccinated migrants continue to be admitted to the US but Novak Djokovic is not being allowed to compete in the U.S. Open. (The Serbian tennis star, the recent winner at Wimbledon, has been denied entrance due to lack of a Covid vaccination.) In the face of literally thousands of examples of photographic and video evidence to the contrary, Jean-Pierre said:
It is not that simple. It’s not just that people are walking across the border. We have a plan in place.
The reporter, Peter Doocy, responded with this, which no doubt must have been news to the press secretary: “Thousands of people are walking in in a day. Some of them turn themselves over. Some of them — tens of thousands a week are not,” he said.
Jean-Pierre fell back on the myth that Title 42–which permits DHS to expel illegal migrants immediately for public health reasons–defines “the process” that is being followed.
In actual fact, the Biden administration has tried repeatedly to cancel Title 42, but has been blocked judicially from doing so. In May, 2022, the Washington Examiner quoted Dr. Victor Manjarrez Jr., of the University of Texas Center for Law and Human Behavior in El Paso and a former senior Border Patrol agent:
The use of Title 42 has had a slow death by the administration because it has been so watered down from the initial inception. You look at the categories of people it has been applied to recently, and it is mostly single adults. Title 42 initially was applied to just about every nationality, but now it is down [to] Mexican, Guatemalan, and other few select countries. The administration has taken steps over the last several months to effectively make the use of Title 42 insignificant. [Emphasis added.]
Yet Jean-Pierre and others in the administration keep citing the program (which they would abolish in a heartbeat) as evidence that they’re making an effort to mitigate the foreign invasion. They’re not, and they’re lying.
For more, see the NY Post.