This administration is weird. Up until today, the Biden administration wasn’t discouraging immigrants from coming to the border, it was just telling them to wait: “Now is not the time,” Jen Psaki said in early February. In other words, just hold tight a bit.
On Tuesday, though, President Biden ventured all the way to Darby, Pa., for a wide-ranging exclusive interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos in which he clearly instructed migrants at the southern border, “Don’t come over.”
Biden tells migrants 'don't come over' in ABC News exclusive interview – ABC News via @ABC – https://t.co/B3jAyghMn5
— Anita Kumar (@anitakumar01) March 16, 2021
President Joe Biden said in an exclusive interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos on Tuesday that his message to migrants is “Don’t come over.”
Amid a surge of migrants and unaccompanied minors on the U.S. southern border, Stephanopoulos asked the president, “Do you have to say quite clearly, ‘Don’t come’?”
“Yes, I can say quite clearly: Don’t come over,” Biden said during the wide-ranging interview in Darby, Pennsylvania.
“Don’t leave your town or city or community,” he added.
But … they already did, and they’re already here, wearing matching “Biden, please let us in” T-shirts. But, as Psaki said, a lot of them are fleeing last fall’s hurricanes. You can’t tell them not to come.
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In other news, CBS News is reporting Tuesday night that there are now more than 13,000 unaccompanied minors in U.S. custody.
BREAKING: CBS News has learned that there are now over 13,000 unaccompanied minors in U.S. custody.@CBSMireya is on the border tonight for the @CBSEveningNews.
— Norah O'Donnell ?? (@NorahODonnell) March 16, 2021
We’re full, OK? Don’t come.
— chris (@cspanks90) March 16, 2021
— JDBear2850 (@jdlaz84) March 16, 2021
— vma (@chicagocu) March 16, 2021
Oh that solves it ???
— Daniel Watson (@danielwatsonlsu) March 16, 2021
How racist of him!!!
— Sports & TV (@Greebull) March 16, 2021
So racist
— Mike D (@MikeD728) March 16, 2021
Xenophobic, even. Is he trying to impose travel restrictions on brown people?
Smh at this explicit xenophobia. Biden's America is truly a terrifying place.
— Guy Faux (@Faux_Guy_) March 16, 2021
Lol. Nice of #sleepyjoe to finally comment on this crisis he created.
— Andy (@CleSportsFan34) March 16, 2021
I'm sure they are listening…..
— Kal El (@TheKryptonian41) March 16, 2021
Yeah. That’ll stop ‘em. ?
— Red Dot in a Blue Dot in a Red State (@reddotinaustin) March 16, 2021
That is not a policy. He has no clue what he's saying. It's a crisis of his making.
— IntelligentDezign (@MiddleAgeCrazy4) March 16, 2021
That will stop them. Great leadership here.
— Dr. Bog Fella (@rwg4302) March 16, 2021
Problem solved, everybody! You can go home now. Don’t ask questions please.
— The Post Modern Times (@smisturiz) March 16, 2021
Yeah right pic.twitter.com/fUfj8PsN58
— DOUG JONES (@DOUG___JONES) March 17, 2021
Yeah bc illegals are watching this interview ??
— Lindsey Michelle?? Ⓜ️?️G?️ (@PoliticalLinz) March 16, 2021
Any follow up on how he plans to keep them from coming?
— Dr. Seuss readers don’t burn courthouses, MSE, PE (@TonesHyus) March 16, 2021
Maybe stop incentivizing them to cross illegally and maybe they'd stop.
— I Disapprove (@DisapproveI) March 16, 2021
Maybe let the press get some pictures of those “reception centers” and pass them around.
Bonus: Biden says they’re not saying to come because he’s “a nice guy.”
.@JoeBiden: “The idea that Joe Biden said come — I heard the other day that they're coming because, you know, I’m a nice guy.”@GStephanopoulos: “They’re saying this.”
Biden: “Yeah, well here’s the deal, they’re not.”pic.twitter.com/762AJcEI6c
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) March 17, 2021
We never said he was a nice guy.
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‘Not at the moment’: President Biden says he has no plans to visit the border where there is no migrant crisis https://t.co/BXNDzAJJ6t
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) March 16, 2021
