Fact-Checking 5 Fibs From Biden’s Border Speech

For about 20 minutes on Thursday, President Joe Biden suddenly pretended to care about the crisis at our southern border that his administration caused. 

The Biden administration rolled out a new plan to expand the parole process for Venezuelans to Nicaraguans, Haitians, and Cubans; fast-track (many illegitimate) asylum cases at the border even more; and expand coordination with nongovernmental organizations for alien care; among other things. We’ll know even more details in the coming days as the Department of Homeland Security and Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas are expected to outline the specifics operationalizing Biden’s announcement.

During the course of his speech, the president unsurprisingly downplayed the danger of his disastrous policies thus far, shifted the blame for the border crisis to Republicans in Congress, and played the victim by claiming that he has not received enough of the outrageous and misplaced funding he repeatedly demands.

Five specific fibs Biden told:

1. Claiming that he tried to pass a comprehensive plan to secure the border and fix the immigration system during his first days in office.

2. Claiming that Congress rejected his recent requests for funding to “secure” the border.

3. Claiming that illegal border crossers come to “flee oppression” as asylum-seekers and that “for many people, that’s what’s happening at our southwest border now.”

4. Claiming that his “administration will continue to use that [Title 42] authority as the Supreme Court has required.”

5. Claiming that “the idea this is beyond our capacity, I just don’t buy.”

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