A thread correcting the glaring distortions from @PressSec on @FoxNewsSunday. But first, some unsolicited advice to the Biden press team: denying reality on the border is an unsustainable strategy. You are insulting the intelligence of voters, journalists and border agents. (1/7)
.@PressSec told Chris Wallace that “the border remains closed.” A preposterous lie. Every unaccompanied minor, from every country on earth (except Mexico) is granted admission. Vast majority of adults traveling w/ minors also being released. Data unknown for single adults. (2/7)
Next, Psaki explained they are taking “a diff. approach from the last admin. We’re not going to send children under 18 back on this treacherous journey.” Another lie. Under Trump, minors were escorted by Feds on gov’t aircraft to safely reunite w/families in home countries. (3/7)
If we are measuring the success or failure of a border policy by how many children are being sent on a “perilous journey,” then the Biden policy is rapidly on pace to become the greatest failure in recorded history (4/7).
Psaki then offered up another blatant falsehood. She said releasing illegal minors “does not mean they get to stay in the U.S. It means their cases are adjudicated.” 96 percent of minors transferred to HHS for resettlement, going back to Obama Admin, are still in the U.S. (5/7).
About 9 in 10 removal orders for this population are issued in absentia. But even the exceptions who do show are not removed (because they are not in custody). And the new DHS priorities make clear no one will be removed for failure to appear in, or comply with, imm court. (6/7)
Finally, @PressSec says they are “focused on solutions...processing kids more quickly.” Accelerating domestic resettlement is not a solution—it’s an open invitation to unceasing lawlessness and a never-ending wave of criminal child smuggling from every corner of the world (7/7).

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29 Mar
With the focus, rightfully, on the cascading UAC numbers, it is crucial not to lose sight of the extraordinary mass influx of illegal family units. Here is a primer so that everyone can fully understand the crisis: (1/11)
During the Obama Admin, after smugglers learned they could assure the entry of UACs, they began smuggling entire families. Secretary Johnson briefly tried to repatriate them, but was sued by anti-borders left, leading to Judge Gee’s infamous and lawless Flores decision. (2/11)
The Flores ruling arbitrarily limited time in ICE custody for families to 20 days, less time than it takes to process a request for asylum or other relief. Obama DOJ didn’t appeal to SCOTUS & the family migrant crisis was born. Catch-and-release became the rule of the day. (3/11)
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25 Mar
.@POTUS replied with a monstrous lie to the question from @CeciliaVega on unaccompanied minors. Vega pointed out that families abroad were separating their own children due to Biden’s supremely reckless pledge to resettle in the U.S. any minor illegally crossing the border. (1/7)
Biden replied w/an asinine false choice. He explained that he was resettling minors in the US in lieu of “let[ting] them starve to death and stay on the other side” (Mexico) which he accused Trump of doing. This is spectacularly false & a grave smear on our border agents. (2/7)
First off, illegal crossers returned to Mexico are transferred to migration authorities not the desert. But unaccompanied minors were returned to their *home countries* to be reunited with their own families. They were not returned to Mexico unless Mexico was their home. (3/7)
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Here’s the bottom line everyone needs to understand about the #BidenBorderCrisis before the presser: the crisis would end instantly if Biden just turned back on the Trump policies he shut off. He turned the Border Patrol from a law enforcement agency into a resettlement service.
The Biden Admin’s position on the border rush is internally contradictory. They say it’s an asylum crisis — even though there is no government persecution in the Northern Triangle — and yet they say the solution is economic stimulus (acknowledging it’s an economic migration).
Billions of people in the world live in countries that are poor, have high crime rates, or both. There is no amount of taxpayer cash Biden can spend to make the quality of life in these countries so safe & prosperous no one wants to illegally migrate to the US.
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