Q: Why Making It Easier To Enter Illegally? Does razor wire work? What is the plan?

Reporter Asks Kirby: “Why Are You Guys Making It Easier For People To Enter The Country Illegally?”

On 1/23/2024, Fox News reporter Peter Doocy asked John Kirby: “Why are you guys making it easier for people to enter the country illegally?”

KIRBY: “I don’t believe we are”

Doocy: “You guys sued to cut razor wire…”

KIRBY: “The Border Patrol needed access!”

Kirby Claims Razor Wire Does Not Work To Secure Border “That’s Why We Asked For It To Be Removed”

Doocy: “Does razor wire [to secure the southern border] work?”

KIRBY: “I don’t think so and that’s why we asked for it to be removed”

Kirby Outlines Biden “Plan” To Secure Border: “We Have, And Will Continue To Try, To Stem The Flow”

Doocy: “What is the president’s plan [on the border]!?”

KIRBY: “We have, and will continue to try, to stem the flow!”

Q: Federalizing the Texas National Guard?

The National Guard is a unique entity in that it answers to both state and federal governments. Troops can be mobilized by a state governor or the president, depending on need. The National Guard personnel restricting access to Shelby Park are on state orders as part of Operation Lone Star, Abbott’s sweeping border security initiative.

In theory, the president or the defense secretary could divert those troops by tasking them with a federal mission

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Q: Why Making It Easier To Enter Illegally? Does razor wire work? What is the plan?

Key Points

Reporter Asks Kirby: “Why Are You Guys Making It Easier For People To Enter The Country Illegally”

On 1/23/2024, Fox News reporter Peter Doocy asked John Kirby: “Why are you guys making it easier for people to enter the country illegally”

KIRBY: “I don’t believe we are”

Doocy: “You guys sued to cut razor wire”

KIRBY: “The Border Patrol needed access

Transcript Highlights

The following is transcribed from the video audio:

• Why are you guys making it easier for people to enter the country illegally
• Well, you guys sued to cut razor wire that was put in place by Texas officials
• So that the border patrol could actually do their jobs, but keep going
• The border patrol union president is saying the Supreme Court’s decision is going to undoubtedly encourage more illegal immigration
• Do you guys know better than the border patrol union
• The border patrol needed access, and that’s why we sued to get rid of that razor wire, so that they could do their jobs
• And you know what would also help them do their jobs, Peter
• There’s an idea, and if you go back to the supplementary request that we put in, there’s money in there for some 1,300 additional border patrol agents
• We want to give them more resources, and the answer we keep getting back from House Republicans is no, no, no
• Does it work for the border patrol to allow them to have the access they need to be able to better process people that are trying to get across the border

Full transcript: 612 words transcribed via Whisper AI.