The president brazenly lied about the border crisis.
Reporters aren’t in the practice, obviously, of being particularly tough on President Biden. But at his first press conference as president this afternoon, Cecilia Vega of ABC News politely nailed him to the wall on a key failure of his border policy.
She told an affecting story of meeting a nine-year-old boy at the border who had walked to the U.S. from Honduras, and said that when she called the boy’s mother, the woman explained that she had sent him to the U.S. because she believed that Biden would let him into the country.
This, of course, is exactly why there’s been a surge at the border. Biden created an exemption in Title 42 — the public-health authority that President Trump had used to turn back migrants during the pandemic — specifically for minors, and predictably there’s been a surge of minors.
In evading this reality throughout the press conference, Biden resorted to a haze of misrepresentations, and inadvertently exposed the senselessness of his own policy.
In response to Vega, he echoed a distortion often made by his Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and said that Trump had dumped children into the Mexican desert. Except Biden made the charge even more lurid by alleging that Trump had let children starve to death.
This is a disgraceful and stupid charge. The Trump administration either flew back migrants to their home countries directly or handed them over to Mexican authorities to do the same. No one was pushed into the desert.
Also, in response to Vega, he said that the nine-year-old boy should be returned to his mother in Honduras. But that was precisely the Trump policy that Biden overturned and now falsely portrays as inhumane. Under Biden’s policy, that nine-year-old is likely in an HHS detention facility and will not be returned home, instead placed with the nearest relative that can be found in the United States.
If Biden wants to begin returning minors to their families back home, a laudable goal, he could do it immediately — all it takes is reversing himself on Title 42.
The rest of Biden’s statements about the border weren’t any more accurate or sensible.
He said that family units are all being turned back at the border. First, we know this is not true. Reports suggest that most family units are now getting into the United States. Second, it’s not clear why this stated policy of returning family units wouldn’t, on Biden’s terms, be just as immoral as returning minors.
He said that the reason even more family units aren’t being returned is that Mexico can’t take more of them. Again, if it’s okay to send migrants back into Mexico, it makes no sense that Biden ended Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” program, which had asylum-seekers waiting in Mexico while their asylum claims were adjudicated in the United States.
Biden said that Trump’s policies had no effect at the border. This is demonstrably false. Trump had gotten control of the border prior to the onset of the pandemic.
He blamed Trump for reducing shelters for migrants, a truly absurd charge. Trump only closed the surge facilities set up during the crisis of 2018–2019 because they were no longer needed, and, besides, Democrats agitated to shut down these facilities.
Overall, Biden gave no indication that he understands how he has stoked the current crisis or that he knows how to address it. His emphasis was on improved processing of the migrants that are coming, rather than persuading them to stay home. That will inevitably mean more families in Central America deciding to send their children on the harrowing journey north, whether Biden wants to acknowledge it or not.
F Cuomo and his whole Family and add The Biden clan and Pelosi, Schumer…….and Camel toe Harriss to that! Ship their liberal American hating asses South of the border!
BRING TRUMP BACK,LIKE YESTERDAY!!!!!
So this is the best that the Democrats could put up for President of the US. He’s dumber than a box of rocks.
Please this is insulting to rocks everywhere. I have lots of decorative rocks as landscaping that are far more useful and spout no buullshit!
Ken, please accept my apology on behalf of Bob. He is a frequent commentator on these threads, and has always displayed the utmost sensitivity and respect for rocks. In the name of decency and fellowship, let us overlook a temporary lapse of judgement in the employment of modern colloquialism, and instead focus upon the disparagement of boxes in contemporary unwoke society. Thanx
a Biggg of rocks
Hi Bob,
I thought Biden was vacuum packed from the shoulders up! Nothing exists in a void. Are we going to listen to this constant lying from the liberal Democrats? When Biden fell three times on his way up to Air Force One, I was praying he would break his bloody neck! If Biden’s lips are moving, he is LYING.
That’s very insulting to those poor defenseless rocks!
Biden is a complete IDIOT, he has no idea what the hell he is doing. He has NO right to just allow anyone and everyone to enter my country and stay here forever. These ILLEGALS are being treated better than us true Americans. There is no way that a bunch of ILLEGALS should ever be allowed on any US MILITARY BASE FOR ANY REASON. He is allowing these ILLEGALS who have Covid19 to go anywhere in my country when our own citizens can’t ever see their our relatives in nursing homes and other gatherings. Why should these ILLEGALS be getting free health care free housing and food when we have US citizens that don’t know where their next meal is coming from.IT’S TIME TO GET RID OF EVERY GOD DAMN DEMOCRAT.
Thomas,
I agree, lets send all liberals to Russia were they will feel at home. We do not need them to run this Country, Conservatives need no help to lead real Americans to the “promised land” that God wanted us to have.
Title 42, a law? and Buyden is waiving it, isn’t this is what communist dictators do.
You are correct madam- or should I start using the word comrade!
Dementia jo is the scape goat for the failing plans the communist democrats are trying to pass off on the American people.
When a border crisis prevails = its the old fools fault, not the fault of the communist controlled democrats.
He proved yesterday just how much of a blubbering FOOL he really is. For the first time in my life I fear for the nation.
Sad Y’all don’t listen. This is the first intelligent News Conference the American people have heard in 4+ years. Oh, and by the way, fewer potential immigrants have come to the border this year than in trump’s last year. Check the facts.
What planet do you live on? You spout bullshit as if it’s clean and doesn’t smell.
When you speak, speak the truth and not lies. Consider backing up what you say with facts and quit lying. You look as stupid as that blubbering idiot you call a president.
You mentioned FACTS! These people have confused FACTS with FOX!
Trumpians cannot process Facts!!
Chuck DeSabato – Ok, let’s try facts: DemonKKKraps failed to elect an unelectable and unelected President, so they cooked the books to get SloJoe Bidet into that office as a faux-President. DemonKKKraps wouldn’t recognize prevarication if faux-President BiteMe bit them, so they write the lies out or program the teleprompter to feed lies to a sorry shell of a man who has difficulty reading them.
Now, just so we’re clear, I don’t like President Donald John “The Donald” Trump’s style or accent (I admit to being shallow on that score.), and Fox News isn’t what it used to be. On top of that, I ran for office as a Democrat before that political party went off the deep end. But no one is entitled to imagine and speak their own facts when they’re not factual, and DemonKKKraps have an issue with actual facts: They don’t like them, and you appear to be of that mob.
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where have you been. hiding from covid. our president is an idiot. polosi and the others use him as a puppet. There were 4,000 children alone that came across because Biden said come on over. you should look up all the things Trump accomplished in 4 years. Human trafficing that’s what is happening to all these children. The bidens are probably very excited.
I think ‘President’ Biden’s press conference was interesting! I particularly enjoyed the comment of his that the mike picked up that he probably didn’t intend to be picked up. He was being questioned about Ex-President Trump and said under his breath, “I miss him too.” Probably because when
Ex-President Trump was in office he wasn’t and didn’t have to experience the stress of being President.
I loved him, too. With my last breath, I will violate my own law and speak the name of “Donald, Donald, Donald, donald, don……”
WE ARE IN DEEP SHIT!
there was a great man, that lived in the white house, and Trump was his name, T-R-U-M-P,
T-R-U-M-P, and Trump was his name. I really like this song. {sing to the tune of bingo }
Jill – Are you a professional lyricist? I like it! Catchy!
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Biden doesn’t belong as president. He proves that every time he opens his dementia mouth. Only the Democratic Party would nominate a dementia patient for president and then try to speak of him as if he has all his marbles. I’m waiting for him to argue the world is flat. The man insults himself and exposes his lack of competence every day with his lies and lack of a grasp of the facts. After it becomes worse and his handlers can no longer try to cover up his inadequacies, Biden’s handlers (those pulling his puppet strings), will encourage him to resign. Then, we’ll be stuck with a socialist/communist who will seek to destroy the once proud American democracy. That’s when either a Civil War or a break up of the country will occur. Either way, our enemies will become emboldened and the world will suffer another dark age as a result. Life will not be worth living in that world as it will be a struggle just to survive.
Mike S – Don’t get me wrong! Unelectable and unelected SloJoe Bidet will, at some point, shuffle off into the sunset, and Kameltoe will become the first Constitutionally unqualified, native born (not “naturally born” as required by our Constitution) female faux-President of our United States of America. She will likely occupy our Oval Office long enough to appoint the Vice President her puppet-handlers tell her to choose, after which serving her purpose, an accident or false flag event will befall her, and the one that DemonKKKraps actually want in office will slide into the big chair. It will be another “first” for DemonKKKraps, as it will be a landmark achievement to have had 3 (or more, if more “distance” is seen to be needed) Presidents in one Presidential term. Just spitballin’ here, but it doesn’t seem an unlikely series of events. If I were a DemonKKKraptik operations planner, that’s what I’d do, though given their track record, they probably have something far more sinister in the works.
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Now I know why the military always referred to Joe as VP Bite-me. I know as I personally heard it.
I have heard it as well, bite me biden. so darn funny……
Biden cannot even read a script, much less answer questions he already knows are coming. This was a total scam and they cannot even do it well. Is anyone else really really worried about what is happening?
and if you looked at his eyes and body movements they had him doped up again in hopes that he would function and be able to speak didnt happen he belongs in a mental institution
Biden was never the sharpest Crayola in the box to begin with. Now, this farcical, totally scripted “Press Conference” was a complete disaster. Our Republic ended when this Demented Arsehole was installed in office. Not Inaugurated, INSTALLED!
Every crisis this country is facing can be laid at the feet of the Democrat Party.
Even Crazy Chris Wallace of Faux “News” Channel found fault with Babbling Biden’ baffling bulls**t. That should tell you something.
The truth is that most of the parents of these children want to come into the U.S. but not for citizenship but to work as illegals, They do not want citizenship in the usa, They send their children because they know we will take care of them, feed them and make them citizens thus they do not have to take care of them themselves and gives them opening to come to usa. These people do not want to pay taxes and are here to send remittances back to their home countries taking jobs from Americans. Prime example, ford is moving to Mexico, they pay them $235.00 per months that 50 hrs a weeks or 200 hrs per month. They live ok on those wages, but if working in the usa illegally, they can send home $300-500 per month from the USA. and live very very well from wages stolen from jobs that Americans should have. They come here not tobe Americans but to take from America and live like kings in their own countries. Too bad we Americans do not pay for food, shelter etc. as those from the south American triangle?
It is easy for these immigrants to save money to send back to their family in these south of the border countries when they work under the table and do not pay taxes and US taxpayers pay their hospital bills, their housing and electricity and heating bills, their food bills, etc. What a scam.
SloJoe Bidet may or may not be a lying corksoaker. (Whew! There! Cleaned that up!) What is undoubtedly true is that those who write his notes for him and program the teleprompters he has difficulty reading are definitely prevaricating soakers of cork! Bidet is just an unelectable blank shiite (read “TP”) upon which to write a destructive agenda.
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You know what Biden and Trump have in common? They were both draft dodgers.
Xi-Jinping would be so proud of Xi-JinBiden!
Biden is the laughing stock of the whole world by now. I suppose those that voted for him are still proud of themselves.
LMAO What a loser Biden is.