Biden Admin Is ‘Committed To Fixing The Broken Immigration System’: Karine Jean-Pierre Reaffirms

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During Friday’s White House press briefing, Karine Jean-Pierre was asked about President Biden’s potential executive actions on the border.

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00:00 The White House brought on a new border person,

00:03 Blas Nunez-Meto.

00:06 What is it -- what is that -- is there any -- does that give any

00:09 indications of urgency, speed of the executive order that the

00:16 President has been considering?

00:17 So, look, we are -- we look forward to the DHS Assistant

00:22 Secretary joining the White House and continuing his work

00:26 in implementing the administration's vision across

00:28 the border security and immigration spaces.

00:30 Don't have anything new to read out on any new announcements.

00:33 But, look, this is an administration that is committed

00:36 to fixing the broken immigration system.

00:38 On the first day, on his first day of this administration,

00:41 the first piece of legislation that he put forward was one to

00:44 a comprehensive piece of legislation to deal with the

00:47 broken system, to deal with what we're seeing with -- at the

00:50 border, the challenges.

00:51 And then we moved forward when that legislation was not moving

00:55 forward in Congress.

00:56 We spoke to -- had a two-month negotiation process with

01:01 senators to come up with a bipartisan proposal.

01:04 And so that was rejected, as you all know,

01:06 by Republicans because of the former President stating that

01:09 this would hurt him and help Joe Biden.

01:12 And that is unfortunate.

01:13 We know that this is an issue.

01:15 When we talk about the immigration system,

01:17 that majority of Americans care about.

01:19 And so --

01:20 But what steps that he could take?

01:21 Look, we believe that the bipartisan border security

01:26 agreement that came out of the Senate that was rejected by

01:29 Republicans because of the former President is the best way

01:32 to move forward in a comprehensive way.

01:34 That's what we want to see.

01:36 And I've stated this many times before as it relates to any

01:39 other actions.

01:40 We're always going to look at other opportunities,

01:43 other actions.

01:44 We always will.

01:45 Don't have anything to speak to, to announce at this moment.

01:50 We actually want to see that bipartisan immigration agreement

01:55 move forward.

01:56 That's what we want to see.

01:57 That is going to be the most comprehensive way to deal with

01:59 a broken immigration system.

02:00 You've heard me say this.

02:01 If it is put into law, signed into law by this President,

02:04 it would be the toughest and the fairest piece of legislative

02:08 law that we have seen in some time.

02:10 This system has been broken.

02:11 The immigration system has been broken for decades.

02:14 For decades.

02:15 And it's time that we act.

02:17 And Republicans have an opportunity to do that.

02:19 They have an opportunity to do that.

Biden Admin Is ‘Committed To Fixing The Broken Immigration System’: Karine Jean-Pierre Reaffirms

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