We’ve written extensively on the White House’s defensive floundering on the issue of settlement payments to illegal immigrants to the tune of $450,000/person, which began with President Biden’s “garbage” answer to Fox News reporter Peter Doocy when asked about the Wall Street Journal report that claimed the DOJ, “Homeland Security, and Health and Human Services are considering payments” to families that were allegedly separated under the Trump administration and who had filed lawsuits, and continuing into the weekend with Biden yelling at another reporter for asking about it.
Because Biden is notoriously bad at what he does, journalists have to rely heavily on the White House press office to play “clean up” and “translator” for Biden, which is, to be quite honest is not that much better. White House deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre – who is subbing for a COVID-stricken Jen Psaki – tried to do so twice last week in regards to this matter, failing both times.
In the first instance, which we documented, Jean-Pierre completely undercut Biden’s comments when asked about them by Doocy during the Thursday daily press briefing, telling him that Biden was “perfectly comfortable” with settlement payments while attempting to clarify that what Biden was saying was “garbage” was the amount reported by the WSJ ($450,000).
But in another exchange between Doocy and Jean-Pierre the following day that flew under the radar, Doocy turned the tables on the press secretary by asking her why the White House wasn’t considering offering payments to those who came here legally. Jean-Pierre was confused even though Doocy responded by suggesting that the White House would not consider offering payments to illegal migrants if they paid people who arrived here illegally.
Doocy: It is difficult to legally enter this country. Do you think there is any discussion of giving those who come here money the right way?
Jean-Pierre: Why would — I — why would we be giving people who are coming here the right way money?
Doocy: Are you giving money to people who have come here in the wrong direction?
Jean-Pierre: I mean, but I don’t understand the question. What is — you’re saying that we should give —
Doocy: You’re giving illegal immigrants —
Jean-Pierre: — we should give people just money who are coming through? I don’t understand the question.
Doocy: You’re giving people who immigrated here illegally money. It will.
Jean-Pierre: Like I said — like I said, that’s the Department of Justice. That’s — you’re going to have to ask them that question.
Doocy? Okay. We’ll ask again.
Jean-Pierre:
Take a look at:
Jean-Pierre couldn’t answer @pdoocyIt’s a simple question about giving money to those who have entered the country legally. pic.twitter.com/Hnzno9pXHX
— MRCTV (@mrctv) November 5, 2021
For this question, Doocy was awarded with the “thug life” distinction, which you may recall was previously awarded to Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) during the contentious 2018 Supreme Court confirmation hearings for then-Judge Brett Kavanaugh:
Doocy Da Man (wait for it) pic.twitter.com/CLWDdoJ9Bj
— RickyLee (@RickyLe80284150) November 8, 2021
It was a great question that the White House ought to be able to answer. I mean, seriously – if you’re going to give hundreds of thousands of dollars in U.S. taxpayer dollars to people who came here illegally, why not pay people are spending their hard-earned money and time to do it the right way? The United States here is essentially negotiating to reward poor behavior which will in turn encourage illegal immigrants to do the same.
They sure are not doing enough to show that the White House wants to reduce the number of illegal immigration crossing the border, despite claiming they do so in the COVID Crisis.
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