According to prior reporting at RedState, the Biden administration is moving to complete sections of the border wall that were left unfinished in Arizona. Upon taking office, the current president gave an order to cease all construction started during Donald Trump’s term, a decision that has proven disastrous as the Yuma sector has become one of the most illegally entered and deadly in the country.
Now, with the sudden reversal, the White House has been left scrambling to explain why it’s all of a sudden the right time to build the border wall. To be frank, they have no good answer, which was illustrated during today’s press briefing. Karine Jean-Pierre continued her tenure as the worst press secretary in history with this banger.
Imagine giving that nonsensical response with a straight face, yet somehow, Jean-Pierre manages. They are “cleaning up the mess” the prior administration left behind? What an absolutely insane contention. Trump did everything he could to get the wall built and built quickly. That it wasn’t completed under his tenure was due to time constraints and obstruction from Congress. Even then, Biden could have come into the White House and continued construction. He chose not to, and the absolute disaster at the border is completely on his head.
Jean-Pierre then asserted that they are building the border wall to “save lives.”
This is one of those moments where you can only place your palm gently over your face, wondering if the respondent truly grasps how absolutely ridiculous and hypocritical they sound. For years, conservatives (including myself) have been making the case that an open border is a humanitarian crisis and a deadly one at that. Democrats have steadfastly ignored that reality, acting as if open borders are compassionate, never having to take stock of the lives lost due to their policies. To see the White House try to spin the “save lives” line after deriding anyone who previously made that argument is astounding but not at all unexpected.
Then there’s the problem of Karine Jean-Pierre’s past statements. Being the radical that she is, she spent most of the Trump administration asserting that any type of border wall is “racist.” That’s led to some rather inconvenient side-by-sides.
It’s all fun and games when you are grifting for MSNBC viewers, but Jean-Pierre is learning quickly that actually governing is a different story. Still, I don’t expect the Biden administration to actually do what it takes to fix the border. They’ll just put a few bandaids on, claim they did something, and keep illegal immigration flowing. In the meantime, Jean-Pierre will continue to demonstrate how abjectly unqualified she is for her job.