“I’m just going to refer back to the vice president — we agree with her saying that there’s a lot of work to do, right?” Jean-Pierre said.
despite a surge of illegal crossings and overwhelmed migrant processing centers.
“What we stand by is that we are doing everything that we can to make sure that we follow the process that’s been put forth,” Jean-Pierre said. “That’s why we have historic funding to do just that, to make sure that the folks that we encounter at the border be removed or expelled.” Reporter Jacqui Heinrich of Fox News asked the press secretary, “Do you think that Americans believe that the border is secure?”
Heinrich later asked if the White House thought voters felt they were being “lied to” as they see images of crowds of migrants amid reports of overwhelmed US immigration processing centers. The press briefing came as Republican governors continue to ship migrants to Democratic strongholds such as New York City and Chicago. In the past two days, hundreds also have been dumped in Martha’s Vineyard and outside the vice president’s Washington, DC, home.AFP via Getty Images/ Herika Martinez