HYGO News Kirby Dismisses Deporting non-Citizen In Pro-Hamas Protests, We're Not Blind Concerns Aid to Hamas
Kirby Dismisses Deporting non-Citizen In Pro-Hamas Protests, We’re Not Blind Concerns Aid to Hamas
Biden Spox John Kirby Dismisses Deporting Foreign Nationals Who Participate In Pro-Hamas Protests
Q: Should student visas be revoked from foreign nationals who have engaged in pro-Hamas protests?
JOHN KIRBY: “You don’t have to agree with every sentiment that is expressed”
John Kirby: “We’re Not Blind” To Concerns Hamas Terrorists Might Divert Humanitarian Aid For Gaza
“How are you going to convince people that [aid for Gaza/West Bank] is not going to get into Hamas’s hands?”
JOHN KIRBY: “We’re not blind to the potential concerns here over diversion”
John Kirby Says US Needs “To Be Able To Replenish” Weapons, Ammo, After So Much Aid To Others
Top Biden spokesman John Kirby: “We’ve provided an awful lot out of our [defense] inventory and we need to be able to replenish that!”
John Kirby Can’t Say If US Is Still Advising American Citizens In Gaza To Travel To The Border
“Are you still advising Americans [in Gaza] to go to the border?”
JOHN KIRBY: “Talk to the State Department”
Kirby Dismisses Deporting non-Citizen In Pro-Hamas Protests, We’re Not Blind Concerns Aid to Hamas
Key Points
Biden Spox John Kirby Dismisses Deporting Foreign Nationals Who Participate In Pro-Hamas Protests
Q: Should student visas be revoked from foreign nationals who have engaged in pro-Hamas protests
- JOHN KIRBY: “You don’t have to agree with every sentiment that is expressed”
John Kirby: “We’re Not Blind” To Concerns Hamas Terrorists Might Divert Humanitarian Aid For Gaza
“How are you going to convince people that [aid for Gaza/West Bank] is not going to get into Hamas’s hands
- ”
JOHN KIRBY: “We’re not blind to the potential concerns here over diversion”
John Kirby Says US Needs “To Be Able To Replenish” Weapons, Ammo, After So Much Aid To Others
Top Biden spokesman John Kirby: “We’ve provided an awful lot out of our [defense] inventory and we need to be able to replenish that
- ”
John Kirby Can’t Say If US Is Still Advising American Citizens In Gaza To Travel To The Border
“Are you still advising Americans [in Gaza] to go to the border
Transcript Highlights
Transcribed from the video audio:
- There’s been an uptick on the right among some Republicans who have called for students or foreign nationals who are demonstrating in some of these pro-Palestine demonstrations or allegedly pro-Pamas demonstrations to have their student visas pulled or to face deportation
- What is the administration’s response to those kinds of remarks and that kind of rhetoric
- I would just tell you you don’t have to agree with every sentiment that’s expressed in a free country like this to stand by the first amendment and the idea of peaceful protest
- On the aid portion, how for instance are you going to convince people that this is not going to get into Hamas’s hands when for instance we saw fraud with something like COVID relief money in the U
- We’re now talking about securing an understanding with Hamas, a terror group, about how this humanitarian aid should be used
- How can you convince people that that is going to be a worthwhile, necessary and secure endeavor
- We certainly share concerns about any diversion of humanitarian assistance for Hamas purposes
- We know that they need fuel to be able to electrify and to power up their tunnels, for instance, keep the lights on us
- We’re not blind to potential concerns here over diversion, which is why Ambassador Satterfield is on the ground
- Every indication that we have is that it has in fact gone to the Palestinian people who are in desperate need for it