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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