Biden White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre let the mask slip on the border crisis this week, unwittingly saying that the Biden administration has expanded the pathway to citizenship.
Katie Pavlich of Townhall caught it:
One of the reporters in the room heard it, too.
Here’s a transcript via C-SPAN:
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: I will say this: The President has done more to secure the border and to deal with this issue of immigration than anybody else. He really has.June saw the single largest month-to-month drop in lawful – unlawful border crossing because of the policies this President put in place.We’ve got a record number of federal agents and officers – more than 24,000 – working to secure the border because of the funding this President secured.We brought – we brought 21 world leaders on the West Coast, as you all remember, together for the first time to – ever to deal with this issue in a – in a regional way because of the alliances that this President has put forth. And we secured record funding for border security and management.And let’s not forget, we expanded – we’ve expanded the pathway to citizenship under this President. And mind you, he’s been doing this on his own. Does he want to do it in a bipartisan way? Absolutely. That’s why he put forth his first piece of legislation to be on immigration to fix this broken system.We are – we are willing to work with Congress and with Republicans. We need Republicans to do this. We just do. But they keep turning it into a political stunt.Go ahead.Reporter: I just wanted to follow up.KJP: Yeah, sure.Reporter: You said that this administration has expanded the pathway to citizenship?KJP: The pathway of legal – legal pathway – pardon me – the legal pathway for migrants to enter this -Reporter: Okay. You were talking about -KJP: The legal pathways to mi- – to migrants coming. Yes.Reporter: From – from the parole program?KJP: Right. From the parolee program. That’s -Reporter: Which don’t have any – which don’t lead to any sort of permanent legal -KJP: Well, it – it’s a legal -Reporter: Right – it’s a – it’s a two-year program with -KJP: I – I agree. You’re right.Reporter: Okay.KJP: It gives you a legal pathway to come in – and that’s what -Reporter: OkayKJP: – that’s what I’m talking about – in trying to prevent the unlawful pathways.Reporter: And -KJP: So, just to clear it – clear – clear what I was trying to say.Reporter: And when the two-year parole for those folks – whether they be the folks from South and Central America or Afghanistan or Ukraine – when the parole ends, does this President intend to renew the two- – two-year paroles for those? Or are they – or is he going to send them back?KJP: So, that’s a very good question. That’s why we keep asking for help from Congress to help us fix this bro- – broken system. That is why we’re -Reporter: And -KJP: – we’re – we – we’re just not there yet. That’s why we keep asking for help from Congress, from Republicans to help actually come together in a bipartisan way to fix this issue.Reporter: But if they – but if they don’t -KJP: I – like – like I said, we’re going to continue to do what we can, right? This President is going to continue to do what he can to – to deal with it – to deal with a broken system. So, we’re taking the steps to do that. And that’s where we are today.
See the video below:
It seems pretty obvious that the border crisis is really about importing new voters for the Democrats.
Featured image via Twitter video.
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