'What have they accomplished?': White House states GOP not supplying immigration methods

Christian Datoc

September 16, 03:07 PM September 16, 03:07 PM

White Household push secretary Karine Jean-Pierre included a new angle to the administration's criticism of Govs. Greg Abbott (R-TX) and Ron DeSantis, accusing equally of playing political online games with immigrants with out presenting any real methods for fixing the immigration program.

Both of those Jean-Pierre and President Joe Biden invested significantly of Thursday "calling out" the Republican governors for their "un-American" attempts to transport immigrants to cities along the East Coastline. The press secretary continued to deal with numerous additional questions on the matter during Friday's briefing.

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"We are offering options. That is what the Biden-Harris administration has been doing considering the fact that working day a single," Jean-Pierre advised reporters in the course of a person particularly tense trade. "What have they accomplished? They do these political stunts, they vote versus our funding requests, they vote versus guidelines to correct this damaged method. Stunts aren't solutions listed here. Stunts aren't policies."

"We're over here making an attempt to govern, attempting to basically take care of a system that has been damaged for some time, seeking to correct a system that was decimated by the past administration, and all we're looking at from them are petty and hazardous stunts," she reported. "They are putting children's lives at danger. They're putting family's life at hazard, and all over again, I'll say to Republicans, yet again, if they are interested in fixing the trouble, there are several techniques to do this."

Jean-Pierre proposed Republican lawmakers vote to approve the "report funding" the Biden administration had requested for DHS and to "indication on or work with us on a comprehensive immigration reform."

On Thursday, Biden asked for help from other Republicans in shaming Abbott and DeSantis's conduct.

"Instead of operating with us on solutions, Republicans are actively playing politics with human beings, employing them as props," the president reported. "What they're executing is merely incorrect. It really is un-American, it's reckless, and we have a system in position to take care of migrants at the border."

"Republican officials should really not interfere with that system by waging a political — these political stunts," he mentioned. "It's long overdue for Senate Republicans to arrive to the desk and offer a pathway for citizenship for DREAMers, these in short-term standing, farm workers, and necessary employees. We need to have to modernize our regulations so businesses get employees they have to have and households do not have to hold out many years to be brought back alongside one another. It truly is time to get it performed."