White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre made the claim last week that President Biden has visited the U.S.-Mexico border, which is untrue, but a media watchdog says the national media ignored the fib because they are all on the same team.
“He’s been there. He’s been to the border,” Pierre, speaking of her boss, told Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy during a two-minute exchange.
That claim, which is an easy lay-up for willing fact checkers, came after Doocy asked if Biden would visit the border after House Minority Kevin McCarthy, the Republican congressman, asked the president to join him there.
Using the most charitable read, you could say Jean-Pierre meant Biden has visited the border at some point since he joined the U.S. Senate in 1972. Or she was just lying.
“There is a difference between being to the border and actually doing a border visit,” says Tim Graham of Media Research Center. “I mean that’s, I think, the kind of game they’re playing here.”
After lying about Biden’s border visit, the White House press secretary then audaciously claimed President Biden has been working to secure the U.S-Mexico border, when in reality that’s far from true. The number of illegal aliens apprehended by Border Patrol agents broke records during the 2022 fiscal year after Biden removed Trump-era border security measures on his first day in office.
“Since he took office,” she said, “President Biden has been taking action to fix our immigration system and secure our border.”
Regarding the Republicans in Congress, she accused them of being unwilling to “to work with us” on border security, even though GOP leaders have pleaded for the Biden administration to re-enact tough measures that block them from entering and remove illegals from inside the U.S.
As far as the national media, Graham tells AFN it’s telling there were no fact-checking articles after that claim because, he says, that article would point out the guilty party in the White House.
“The irony of this whole situation is, as we have demonstrated,” he says, “the networks have tried very energetically to ignore the border crisis.”
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Copyright American Family News. Reprinted with permission.
I think I read somewhere he visited the border back in 2007, before he was Vice President. He may have passed over it going to Mexico at soem point. Since he has shown no concern for the border except to undo all the effort Donald Trump put in to secure it, there is no reason for any Republican to involve themselves in “fixing the immigration system and securing the border” because it ain’t happening!
He has no plans to fix it, BECAUSE THE DEMS DON’T WANT to fix it.
You can’t fix what you don’t acknowledge. Ignorance is bliss, Ignorance is Biden.
this nation is waist deep in SIN from lying politicians to abortion to open borders rampant crime drug use.
this country can not survive on this course and now our supposed republican party who is supposed to be for us has sabotaged every
maga conservitive candidate they could its past time to flush out the gop or start our own party because the usa will not last
much longer with this evil.
And—who started the border wall???
In the Dem world, anything that needs fixing—somehow it is always the Republicans who are getting in the way. Always. It is amazing how well that excuse continues to work for them.
So true. The old addage of ‘tell a lie often and loud enough, and folks will eventually believe it”, is unfortunately FIRMLY ROOTED into the consciousness of america…