On 1/6/2023, Biden Spokesman John Kirby Dodges dodges when asked about clearing of illegal immigrant camps in El Paso. A reporter asked, “let me ask one separate question on the border then, to follow up one she was asking about: There’s reporting that El Paso has cleared the downtown of these expansive migrant camps that have grown there, in advance of the President’s arrival. Is the President going to see a sanitized version of El Paso when he arrives at the border on Sunday?”
MR. KIRBY: The President is very much looking forward to seeing for himself firsthand what the border security situation looks like, particularly in El Paso. He’s very much also looking forward to getting a chance to talk to Customs and Border Patrol agents on the ground who are actually involved in this mission to get their firsthand perspectives of it.
On 1/6/2023, Fox News White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich asked “John, with the new parole program that you guys announced yesterday, is there any risk that because now those who don’t qualify for the program, they won’t have any incentive to turn themselves in, as a lot of people have been doing when they illegally cross the border, and that that could increase the number of got-aways?
MR. KIRBY: That — first, I would definitely refer you to DHS for more detail on this .. we feel there’s great promise here. The idea, Jacqui — and I couldn’t speculate about your question. But the idea is to increase the legal pathways available to people and put in place a nice, safe, orderly process that is humane and gives them the hope that they — that they’re looking for, at the same time being able to crack down on enforcement …
Heinrich: I understand what the objective is, obviously. But as the pilot program with Venezuela was happening and did reduce the number of crossings by 90 percent over those first few weeks that it was in place, the number of got-aways did skyrocket too at the same time. And so my question is: Does the fact that if you cross illegally, it makes you ineligible for this program — does that now disincentivize people to turn themselves in and then make part of this problem harder?
MR. KIRBY: It’s difficult for me to get in the mind of every individual that may have — may have already crossed over illegally, though what they ought to know is that we are going to be making sure that we’re increasing our ability to enforce these policies …
A reporter tells Biden Spokesman John Kirby how some are calling Biden’s open borders a “humanitarian disgrace” The reporter said, “So, John, just following up on the — on the border. I — I spent a long time covering immigration stuff during the Trump years. I — I never saw more damning quotes from immigration advocacy groups and human rights groups during the Trump years than — as I saw yesterday towards this administration. Just reading one to you, Eleanor Acer, who is one of the leading advocacy people — heads up a refugee group, called what the President did yesterday “a humanitarian disgrace.” And that was echoed across the board in literally scores of emails I got from every humanitarian group. What do you all — what does the administration say to the overwhelming consensus from people who advocate on behalf of asylum seekers and refugees and migrants that what the President did yesterday was “a humanitarian disgrace”?
MR. KIRBY: Well, obviously, we take a different view. What we would say is that the — this is a President who understands that …
Biden Spokesman John Kirby says we “need to keep [Biden’s border crisis] in perspective”. A reporter asked, “To follow on Michael’s question about the pushback that the President’s immigration plan is receiving, I guess, to put a finer point on it, one of the central criticisms is that the administration is expanding Title 42 while also claiming to — to be preparing for it to end. So when it comes to Title 42, are you trying to have it both ways?”
MR. KIRBY: No. No. I mean, right now, Title 4- — first of all, as you pro- … we do need to keep it in perspective. The numbers and the scale of the migration challenge is really not something we’ve seen any time in the last hundred years or so.
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Biden see sanitized version of El Paso? New policy Humanitarian Disgrace, increase migrant ‘got-aways’?