White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre added a new angle to the administration's criticism of Govs. Greg Abbott (R-TX) and Ron DeSantis, accusing both of playing political games with immigrants without offering any actual solutions for fixing the immigration system.
Both Jean-Pierre and President Joe Biden spent much of Thursday"calling out" the Republican governors for their"un-American" attempts to transport immigrants to cities along the East Coast. The press secretary continued to face numerous more questions on the topic during Friday's briefing."We are offering solutions. That's what the Biden-Harris administration has been doing since day one," Jean-Pierre told reporters during one particularly tense exchange.
"We're over here trying to govern, trying to actually fix a system that has been broken for some time, trying to fix a system that was decimated by the last administration, and all we're seeing from them are petty and dangerous stunts," she said."They're putting children's lives at risk. They're putting family's lives at risk, and again, I'll say to Republicans, again, if they are interested in solving the problem, there are many ways to do this.
Jean-Pierre proposed Republican lawmakers vote to approve the"record funding" the Biden administration had requested for DHS and to"sign on or work with us on a comprehensive immigration reform.""Instead of working with us on solutions, Republicans are playing politics with human beings, using them as props," the president said."What they're doing is simply wrong.
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