White House Press Secretary Jean-Pierre is so full of it! She just claimed with a straight face that unvaccinated people are not crossing the border illegally. I’m not joking. Jean-Pierre started off the conversation with attitude by saying, “I could have walked away and not taken your question, Peter. But I will take your question.”
Doocy asked, “How come migrants are allowed to come into this country unvaccinated but world-class tennis players are not?” To which she denied that it’s happening. The two were discussing vaccination and immigration and how the White House is okay with some being unvaccinated, but not others.
Doocy followed up with, “so, how is it two different things? Somebody unvaccinated comes over on a plane; you say that’s not okay. If somebody walks into Texas or Arizona unvaccinated; they’re allowed to stay. Why?”
So what they’re talking about: a would-be US Open tennis competitor Novak Djokovic has withdrawn from the US Open due to travel restrictions into the United States as a result of being unvaccinated against COVID-19.
Jean-Pierre stumbled through a response and tried to dodge answering the real question saying, “so, visa records are confidential under U.S. law. Therefore, the U.S. government cannot discuss the details of individual visa cases. Due to privacy reasons, the U.S. government also does not comment on medical information of individual travelers.”
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The US recorded more stops along the Mexico border so far in Fiscal 2022 than in any accounting year in the 20-year history of the Department of Homeland Security — with three months still to go.
In all, 207,416 migrant encounters were recorded in June, according to US Customs and Border Protection, for a total of 1,746,119 stops along the southern border since Oct. 1 — the most the agency has recorded for any fiscal year since 1960.
Fewer than half of those encountered in June — 92,274 — were expelled under the Trump-era Title 42 order, which has allowed rapid removal of migrants before their asylum claims are heard due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The number of unaccompanied children stopped at the border rose by 4% last month to 15,271 — with 752 being held on average per day in CBP custody. The number of family units apprehended slipped 13% to 51,780.