'We don't take our advice' from Trump on immigration, White House Press Secretary Psaki says
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Via: tessylo • 3 years ago • 18 commentsBy: Yelena Dzhanova, Business Insider
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'We don't take our advice' from Trump on immigration, White House Press Secretary Psaki says
Sat, March 6, 2021, 10:10 AM · 3 min read
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki. SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images
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Trump derided Biden's newly instated immigration agenda, saying there's now a surge in migration at the border.
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In response to Trump's criticism, Psaki fired back, saying the Biden administration doesn't "take advice" from him.
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Starting on his first day in office, Biden signed a slew of executive orders meant to reverse Trump-era immigration policies.
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Friday upheld the Biden administration's immigration policies in response to criticism from former President Donald Trump.
The former president in a statement reported Friday derided Biden's newly instated immigration agenda, which includes measures meant to reverse controversial Trump-era policies .
Trump said the reversal of his own policies led to a rise in migration at the southern border.
Under Biden, a migrant facility in Texas reopened to house unaccompanied minors between the ages of 13 and 17.
One reporter asked Psaki during her Friday press briefing about the criticism from Trump.
"We don't take our advice or counsel from former President Trump on immigration policy, which was not only inhumane but ineffective over the last four years," Psaki said, according to a transcript from the White House.
Stephen Miller, a Trump-appointed official responsible for the policy that led to the separation of children from their families at the border, also criticized the Biden administration .
"What we're seeing here is the cruelty and inhumanity of Joe Biden's immigration policies," Miller said during an interview on a Fox News show last month.
"He came into office and announced that there's an open door and that young people who come into this country illegally are going to be resettled instead of returned. He's forcing thousands of young children into the arms of smugglers, into the arms of traffickers, into the arms of coyotes," he said, referring to a nickname for border smugglers.
"We're going to chart our own path forward, and that includes treating children with humanity and respect, and ensuring they're safe when they cross our borders," Psaki added.
Other Biden-appointed administrators also defended the White House's immigration policies.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, for example, said the surge is not equivalent to a crisis at the border and the administration is strategizing potential ways to contain it. That could take the form of opening more facilities near the southern border, for example.
On his first day in office, Biden signed executive orders to end the ban on travel from mostly-Muslim countries , stop the construction of the US-Mexico border wall , and extend the Obama-era program to protect young immigrants from deportation.
Insider's Ashley Collman contributed to this report.
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Funny how the former occupant of the White House and his adviser, Stephen Miller, AKA satan's asshole, think that we would take advice from them and their former criminal enterprise of an 'administration'
nice to finally have a press secretary whose professional resume isn't represented by a picture of a pair of knee pads.
Under Biden, a migrant facility in Texas reopened to house unaccompanied minors between the ages of 13 and 17.
One reporter asked Psaki during her Friday press briefing about the criticism from Trump.
"We don't take our advice or counsel from former President Trump on immigration policy, which was not only inhumane but ineffective over the last four years," Psaki said, according to a transcript from the White House.
Other Biden-appointed administrators also defended the White House's immigration policies.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, for example, said the surge is not equivalent to a crisis at the border and the administration is strategizing potential ways to contain it. That could take the form of opening more facilities near the southern border, for example.
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How come those viruses don't have huge calves?
Those children are going to be processed and possibly sent back. Not resettled. Not granted amnesty. Not caged.
"He came into office and announced that there's an open door and that young people who come into this country illegally are going to be resettled instead of returned. He's forcing thousands of young children into the arms of smugglers, into the arms of traffickers, into the arms of coyotes," he said, referring to a nickname for border smugglers.
Quote attributed to Stephen Millller, taken from the article
They are minimally processed, then released. Never to be seen again
I'll bet you believe in the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy also.
Well, they better take advice from somebody because what they are doing on the border certainly is not working much!
I'm sure they are taking advice from the best and the brightest - which is NOT the former occupant of the White House and his criminal enterprise of an 'administration'
The majority of the politicians of both parties have their heads buried in the sand and take advice from career beurocrats that don't really have a clue on what conditions are really like on the border because they don't go near the border themselves. They in turn send their flunkies and so on.
What, you don't like the ring the dinner bell and let them in open borders (aka no borders) policy?
Biden has been ringing the illegal alien (undocumented immigrant) dinner bell long and hard all during his campaign for President. Now the Democrats act shocked that they had a border crisis.
I guess ignoring it, denying it, and trying to focus everything back on Trump is their only plan.
What would be nice if all of these incoming future illegals would be housed at all Democratic politician personal homes for the duration of their stay. I am sure their tune would quickly change if it affected them directly.
You mean that same border crisis many leftist liberal Democrats still say does not exist?
I like how it's called "housing" now that the administration has changed. A couple of years ago, this kind of thing was characterized as children being held prisoner.
In cages!
Yep, probably the same ones the Obama administration was using through his two terms.