Psaki’s Telling Lie
Even for the Biden White House, Jen Psaki’s latest whopper stands out: The press secretary actually said that the vast tide of migrants crossing the southern border is “not intending to stay here for a lengthy period of time.”
Hmm: Most of them have traveled over a thousand miles from south of Mexico — often enduring privation, violence and even rape along the way — to get to the United States. But it’s not in hopes of a better life here?
Right: They just pined for a short vacation in south Texas. Guess that’s her explanation for why so many “applicants for asylum” never show up for their court dates: Vacay over, they just walked the thousand-plus miles back home.
Plus, Psaki offered this bunk to justify the gaping contradiction on vaccination rules. Team Biden says it will start letting vaccinated travelers from dozens of nations finally visit America again (come November), while still denying entry to the un-jabbed.
But the administration is not demanding vaccinations for the countless illegal bordercrossers that it’s allowing in. Why? “It’s not the same thing,” explained Psaki, before moving on to her “not intending to stay” lie.
In fact, the difference is the reverse of what she pretends: The migrants mean to stay: That’s the point of requesting asylum — or of successfully sneaking past the Border Patrol, as hundreds of thousands likely have. It’s the legal travelers, who will have to show proof-of-jab, who are mostly tourists and other short-term visitors.
The president angrily denounces Americans who refuse to get vaxxed and is pushing to make the shot (or weekly testing) a condition of employment for roughly twothirds of US workers, while legal visitors from overseas must get jabbed.
Only illegal entrants get to dodge the requirement, though most hail from nations with low vax rates. It’s so obviously insane that Psaki’s only hope for justifying it is to tell an obvious lie.
Sadly, blatant fibbing seems to be the entirety of the Bidenites’ answer to what they insist on calling the border “challenge.”