The Biden Administration doesn’t want to talk about the border. They clearly caused this border crisis and the longer it goes on the more it seems intentional. Fox News Kristin Fisher asked Press Secretary Jen Psaki if the Biden Admin was pressured to change their refugee policy and instead of answering Psaki attacked the question as wrong… so that’s a yes.
Fisher: Thank you, Jen. I’m still just a little bit confused about what changed between 1:00 p.m. on Friday and around 4:30 p.m. on Friday to go from “we’re not raising the refugee cap” to “we are raising it by May 15th.” What — what changed in those three and a half hours?
MS. PSAKI: Well, I think, as I just outlined, we never said we’re not raising the refugee cap. In the morning, we said actually — and with the information we put out — was that once we reach 15,000, we will raise it. That was not accounted for in some of how people were di- —
Fisher: But you also said —
MS. PSAKI: Let me finish.
Fisher: Okay.
MS. PSAKI: — some of how people were digesting the information. And we wanted to be clear and send a message that we are a country that is welcoming refugees. Let’s be clear: We are changing the policies of the last administration. We are changing the policy of not welcoming in people from Africa or people from the Middle East. That was the biggest factor preventing refugees come — from coming in during the last administration.
Fisher: So are you saying this had nothing to do with the pushback from some Democrats on Capitol Hill — from Senator Dick Durbin, to Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? It had nothing to do with that?
MS. PSAKI: I don’t think you’ve articulated to me what our change in policy was. What was our change in policy from the morning until the afternoon?
Fisher: The executive order from Friday morning said that “The admission of up to 15,000 refugees remains justified,” period.
And yes, there was a caveat that you could raise that cap later, but, I mean, it explicitly says that right there.
MS. PSAKI: That’s a pretty important caveat, that if we — when we reach 15,000, a subsequent presidential determination could be made. And, again —
Fisher: But then, why —
MS. PSAKI: — the biggest challenge —
Fisher: Then why the need to issue that clarification?
MS. PSAKI: But the biggest — the biggest challenge —
Because people weren’t understanding what we were conveying to the public and weren’t conveying what we were trying to project to countries around the world.
And it’s incumbent upon us to make sure there’s an understanding of what the President’s policies are, what he’s trying to achieve, and what he feels morally — is that we’re going to welcome in refugees from around the world, change the policies from the past administration that — where they were not welcoming in refugees from the Middle East and Africa.
And that was important to him to take that first step and move it forward.
Fisher: The line said, “The admission of up to 15,000 refugees remains justified.”
MS. PSAKI: And —
Fisher: Can you understand how some people would interpret that the way we did?
Watch The Clip Below.
Who does she think she is fooling here? Psaki is basically admitting that the Biden Admin changed their mind on refugee policy due to pressure from their party. But since Psaki could not admit that, she attacked Fisher’s question trying to claim she didn’t see how policy changed, when it clearly did.
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