#shorts On 3/7/2023, a reporter asked White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, “On immigration, among the plans or the strategy for border security, how much does deterrence work — and using deterrence policies work into the strategy for the administration?

KJP: Can you say — can you say more?

Reporter: I mean, a lot of administrations in the past have used deterrence as part of their border security — border security strategy. How much is deterrence and sending a message and then using policies that would deter migration going to be part of the administration’s policy moving forward from Title 42 — after Title 42?

KJP: So, I mean, if you look at what the President has put forward in the past — and, I mean, in the past several months with — you know, since the beginning of this year, when he expanded the parolee program, right? … it was a way to provide an opportunity to do that. Right? So then —

Reporter: But I’m talking about border security though.

KJP: No, but I — but I’m — but that was a deterrence from coming to the border and a way for them to stay at home and — and find a way and use the app to come to — into the U.S. And so, that is a way — an incentive, an option, a path, if you will — for them to use to — to — to figure out how can they — how can they do this in a legal pathway … to build that system, that border system that was, by the way, decimated by the last — by the last administration.

other clips of this published longer video is here: https://youtu.be/McmWsxDF96E
KJP: this year, Telling Illegal Immigrants To “Use App To Come Into US” Has Been “A Deterrence”