#shorts On 12/19/2022, Fox News White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich asked White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre about the agents and officials in El Paso, Texas, becoming increasingly overwhelmed by the surge in migrations and the lack of resources to assist them. Jean-Pierre answered by saying the Biden administration is in “constant communication” with the mayor of El Paso and is working to increase resources and funding at the border.

Heinrich asked KJP, “So you’re saying you don’t support lifting Title 42? Or —
KJP: What I’m saying is that — I — what I’m saying — that it is a court order that has been presented to us that we are going to comply with. So you’ve asked a couple of questions, and I’m going to answer them if you give me a second.

$3.5B: move migrants faster, asylum claims heard faster but GOP political ploy not assisting
Heinrich: Sorry.

So, in the funding request, the $3.5 billion, I’ve already listed them out. I’m happy to do them again: You scale up — we want to scale up air and ground transportation capabilities to move migrants to processing to less-crowded Border Patrol sectors … Set up an additional CBP holding facilities and speed up the processing time so individuals can have their asylum claims har- — heard faster. Hire more than 300 additional agents to join our force of 23,000 agents working to secure the border. 23,000 — that is historic. We’ve not seen that before. And again, that is because of the work that this President has done … $3.5 billion, there is a plan for it. There is a way forward … but what we have been hearing from Republicans and seeing from Republicans in Congress is political ploys. They’re not assisting. They’re not offering any assistance — many of them are not. And so we are asking, right now — if they are serious about this, they are serious about dealing with the challenges, then they would — they would adhere to our funding request.

other clips of this published longer video is here: https://youtu.be/1kj62irbFGA
$3.5B: move migrants faster, asylum claims heard faster but GOP political ploy not assisting