On Monday, a reporter asked why President Joe Biden threatened to close the southern border when Democrats claimed President Donald Trump’s southern border closure was “racist.” ”, he asked, confusing Presidential Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. In 2019.
Last week, Biden promised A bipartisan border deal that no one, including the White House, has yet seen, if passed by Congress, would “close the border.” (Critics say he already has the power and money to do so and do not trust his promises.)
When Trump said the same thing in 2019, he was called a “racist” and “xenophobe.” for example, washington post Editorial Said:
Trump may be the most xenophobic American leader in American history. From efforts to limit immigration from mostly Muslim countries and sharp cuts in refugee admissions to efforts to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border and reject asylum seekers from Central America, Trump The president’s policies have revolutionized immigration to the United States.
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By the time Republican Donald Trump ran for president in 2015, calling for a “big, big wall” along the southern border and a “total and complete shutdown” of Muslims coming to the United States, Mexico “criminals” and the idea that Muslims were “criminals” was entrenched. The idea that “terrorists” were “invading” the United States had become well-established in the media and had become normal. Many Americans expressed outrage at these clearly racist and xenophobic positions. But in reality, Mr. Trump was repeating a message that has been popular for decades and has long been an American tradition.
Given that Biden is now using “nearly the same language,” the reporter asked Jean-Pierre, “Why should people draw the same conclusions?”
She was at pains to answer questions, saying only that if the bill passes, Biden would have “new enforcement tools” and a “different definition” of border closures.
The reporter then asked why the bill should be passed when even the White House has not seen the text of the provision. She denied there were any discrepancies, saying, “The White House team has been involved in the negotiations. … We don’t want to pre-empt the conversation. We don’t want to get in the middle of the negotiations.”
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