On 4/26/2022, White House press secretary Jen Psaki held a press briefing.
Reporter: On Title 42, we’ve heard you guys say that this is a public health order, it’s not an immigration order, it’s the CDC’s decision. But yesterday, members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, who met with the President, relayed some of what he expressed in that meeting. And one of them said that the President told the group that he was looking forward to lifting Title 42, describing it as an excuse to keep people out of the country and anti-immigrant. Is the President really wanting Title 42 to go away because it was a Trump-era policy?
Psaki: Well, the President has never felt that Title 42 was a — an effective immigration policy, and he talked about that during the campaign. But the authority has always rested in the CDC to make that determination. And he left the CDC to make that determination, unlike his predecessor, about a range of decisions. So, the President has never — never made a secret of the fact that he thinks immigration reform is necessary and that Title 42 was never a replacement for comprehensive immigration reform.
reporter: We’ve talked about the administration surging resources to the border. And the last time I asked about this, I believe your answer was something along the lines of, “We have enough funding and supply to take care of the 23 sites that DHS is going to be running to get migrants vaccinated and also take care of uninsured Americans.” But it sounded, in his answer, like that might not be the case anymore. So are we in a place now where there might be a choice where people would have to choose or the administration would have to choose between supplying resources to migrants coming across the border versus taking care of uninsured Americans?
Psaki: I’m happy to check on those resources, Jacqui …
reporter: On the Hunter Biden reporting that we’ve seen come out. Does the President still maintain that he never spoke with his son about his business dealings? And given this reporting on Eric Schwerin, does he also say that he has never spoken to his son’s business partners about his son’s business dealings?
Psaki: He maintains his same statements that he’s made in the past. I would say — I know you’re referring to WAVES records that were released more than 10 years ago. I really don’t have more detail or information on them. I’d note that there was a gap when WAVES records were not released, but I don’t have more information about visits from more than 10 years ago.
reporter: I wanted to ask if the White House had any reaction to that court case that put the temporary block on Title 42 being repealed.
Psaki: Sure. Well, things sometimes happen when I’m out here. But when I — before I came out here, they had only done kind of the verbal briefing, as of last night. So what I will tell you is the Department of Justice will need to review, kind of, any — any rulings before commenting. And that was verbal; there’ll be something more formal, is our expectation. And they would discuss any next legal steps or interpretation of the ruling. So we’ll leave that to them. And we’ll see if more comes out today. A Trump-appointed federal judge on 4/25/2022 granted a temporary restraining order to prevent the Biden Regime from lifting Title 42, a Trump-era order blocking asylum seekers at the US border.
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Biden felt Title 42 never effective, anti-immigrant. Biden never discussed son’s business, not deny met business partners.