‘How’s It Looking?’: Reporter Presses White House On Biden’s Potential Actions On Border

5 months ago

During a White House press briefing on Tuesday, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked about President Biden’s potential actions on the border.

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00:00Can you give us the President's latest thinking on the border EO

00:03and what actions he plans to take?

00:04You've taken smaller,

00:06the targeted actions in the past few weeks.

00:09Yeah. How's it looking?

00:12So, look, you're right. The President has taken some actions,

00:15not just the past two weeks, but over the last three years,

00:17to deal with what we're seeing at the border,

00:20a decade, decades-long issue

00:23with a broken system at the border.

00:25As you know, just last week, that legislation,

00:29that bipartisan legislation that we believed,

00:32if the President had an opportunity to sign,

00:35sign that legislation,

00:36would have been the toughest, the fairest piece of legislation

00:38that we have seen to deal with the border in some time.

00:41And so it failed because Republicans,

00:42by their own admission,

00:44are putting electoral politics ahead of the American people.

00:48And there were things in that legislation

00:50that would have made a difference.

00:51And so it is unfortunate that it happened.

00:54And you saw from the President's statement,

00:55congressional Republicans do not care about securing the border

00:58or fixing America's broken immigration system.

01:00If they did, they would have voted

01:02for the toughest border enforcement in history.

01:04That comes directly from the President in a statement.

01:07We will continue, to your question,

01:09we'll continue to evaluate all options at hand

01:13and looking at what we can do within our authorities,

01:17within the President's authorities.

01:18Don't have anything to announce at this time,

01:21but it is unfortunate that Republicans

01:23who came to the table, who wanted to work out

01:26and deal with an issue, a challenging issue,

01:28the border, they voted against their own policies,

01:32their own interests, and put electoral politics first.

01:36And that is unfortunate.

01:38We're going to look at the option.

01:42Like we continue to do, and we have done,

01:44and you just mentioned just recently,

01:46we've taken some actions.

01:47We are going to look at all of our options

01:50and try to figure out what is the right thing

01:52to do on behalf of the American people.

01:55That is something that the President has been consistent

01:57on and will continue to do.

‘How’s It Looking?’: Reporter Presses White House On Biden’s Potential Actions On Border

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