Day after day in the White House press briefing room, the collective intelligence of millions of Americans gets insulted, and Monday was no exception.
As we previously reported, Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy sparred with press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre after he made a comparison between tennis star Novak Djokovic, who cannot travel to the United States to participate in the U.S. Open tournament because he’s not vaccinated, and unvaxxed illegal immigrants who pour across the border.
Jean-Pierre told Doocy that illegal immigrants couldn’t just “walk over” the border (unvaxxed or otherwise), which is patently false. He called her out on it immediately.
For those who missed the exchange, watch:
Doocy: "Somebody unvaccinated comes over on a plane, you say that's not okay. Somebody walks into Texas or Arizona unvaccinated, they're allowed to stay?"
Jean-Pierre: "That's not how it works… It's not like someone walks over."
Doocy: "That's exactly what is happening!" pic.twitter.com/mr8XE1n1oY
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) August 29, 2022
To back up Doocy, his colleague Bill Melugin, who has been reporting from the southern border for well over a year now, documenting on a daily basis via photos, videos, and live on-scene reports on how easy it is for illegal immigrants to get through unchecked and unvaxxed, stepped in and fact checked Jean-Pierre complete with video receipts that undeniably prove the point:
Colleague @pdoocy is 100% correct. That is exactly what is happening at the border.
Not sure how many more videos we have to show, multiple times a day, to get this point across. And that doesn’t even account for the more than half a million gotaways who slipped thru since 10/1. https://t.co/2f63fXQvzn— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) August 29, 2022
Cade and point 👇🏻
This happens EVERY single day, multiple times a day in Eagle Pass alone. One tiny spot on the border. Yes, they do just walk across by the hundreds. A large majority of them in Del Rio sector are then released. It is that simple.https://t.co/EgLbmVN1el— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) August 29, 2022
Melugin also co-authored an article about the issue and included even more video evidence.
In other words, Doocy was correct – Djokovic would indeed have better luck getting into this country if he snuck in through the southern border illegally rather than attempted to come in the legal route.
Also, as I’ve noted, if he played his cards right, Djokovic maybe could even get a free ride to New York (where the U.S. Open is being held), courtesy of Gov. Greg Abbott, who back in April announced a policy authorizing the busing of illegal immigrants dumped in his state by the Biden administration to New York, and then later Washington, D.C.
It’s just absolutely nuts that we’re this far now into the coronavirus pandemic and people still can’t get into this country legally if they either can’t prove their vaccination status or refuse to get it. Meanwhile, illegal immigrants can walk right over the border unvaxxed and get released by either the border patrol or local authorities when or if they get caught, in part simply because they don’t have the manpower nor resources to handle the influx.
This is, unfortunately, Joe Biden’s and Kamala Harris’ America. But with any luck, not after 2024.
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