The White Home on Friday blamed Republicans and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott when requested concerning the response to the chaotic scene a day earlier, when greater than 100 migrants had been filmed bursting by razor wire alongside the southern border to get into Texas.
“What does President Biden think should happen to adult men who are assaulting and overpowering U.S. National Guardsmen?” Fox Information White Home correspondent Peter Doocy requested press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.
She mentioned the Biden administration was “grateful” that U.S. Border Patrol brokers had been in a position to get the state of affairs below management in El Paso, Texas, earlier than blaming Abbott for his hardline border insurance policies.
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The White Home is blaming Texas Gov. Greg Abbott after a video confirmed greater than 100 unlawful immigrants storming the border at El Paso on Thursday. (Mega/Getty Photographs)
“They had been in a position to do their job regardless that Republicans, Gov. Abbott particularly, has made it tough for them,” she mentioned. “You have a governor, Gov. Abbott, who is politicizing it.”
Fox Information Digital has reached out to Abbott’s workplace.
Jean-Pierre additionally blamed Senate Republicans for not supporting bipartisan border laws to shore up extra sources to fight the inflow of unlawful immigrants.
Video footage revealed by the New York Put up, exhibits dozens of grownup males ripping away razor wire that had been arrange by the state and charging previous Texas National Guard members. They then ran towards a bit of border wall, the place they had been blocked from getting into additional.
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A gaggle of over 100 migrants attempt to enter the U.S. illegally by dashing a border wall on Thursday in El Paso, Texas. Within the course of, the migrants knock down Texas Nationwide Guards members earlier than they’re halted by the border fence. (James Breeden for New York Put up / Mega)
“This video does not show helpless women and children begging for a safe place to come in. It shows adult men landing haymakers on U.S. troops in uniform. If that was happening anywhere else in the world, wouldn’t President Biden send reinforcements?” requested Doocy.
Jean-Pierre famous that everybody was apprehended by border brokers however could not say in the event that they had been deported.
“The governor of Texas put the Texas National Guard there. We didn’t put them there. He put them there. What we need is actual real solutions,” she mentioned.
Abbott has taken an sturdy place on illegal immigrants in his state. Texas is at the moment embroiled in a authorized battle with the Biden administration over a state regulation that might make unlawful immigration a state crime. Texas has additionally bused 1000’s of migrants to Democratic strongholds like New York and Chicago, and has tightened safety on its border with Mexico.
“The mental gymnastics from the Biden Administration are astonishing,” Abbott spokesperson Andrew Mahaleris advised Fox Information Digital in a press release. “[Thurday’s] surge in El Paso is the direct result of the unsustainable chaos President Biden has unleashed on the border.
“Texas will proceed to make the most of each software and technique to discourage and repel unlawful crossings as President Biden’s harmful open border insurance policies encourage migrants from over 150 international locations to make unsafe and unlawful crossings between ports of entry.”
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reported that there have been 189,922 migrant encounters on the southern border in February, the best for the month ever recorded.
The Border Patrol apprehended 140,644 unlawful immigrants final month, the second-highest in February ever recorded for the company, behind 159,170 in February of fiscal 12 months 2022.
Fox Information Digital’s Michael Dorgan and Aishah Hasnie contributed to this report.
