Psaki Whines About Court Order Forcing Biden to Reimplement Trump-Era ‘Remain in Mexico’ Policy

During today’s White House press briefing, press secretary Jen Psaki whined about the court order that is forcing President Joe Biden to reimplement the Trump-era “Remain in Mexico” policy.

A reporter prefaced a question about the policy to Psaki by pointing out that “immigration rights activists” have said that “the idea that the United States government is going to be able to facilitate lawyers for migrants who want them is an empty promise.”

“What can you say to assure those people that you will, in fact, live by that commitment?” the reporter wondered.

According to Time magazine, Biden’s iteration of the policy will give illegal immigrants “more opportunities to speak to immigration attorneys.”

It remains unclear to us how anybody believes that non-citizens should be afforded the same rights that are provided to citizens by the Constitution, but apparently, the Biden administration believes this is acceptable.

Psaki chose not to directly respond at first to the question and instead noted, “I would say first to all of these people, that it is not our preference to be reimplementing and reinstituting the Migrant Protection Protocol.”

“We are doing that because of a court order and legal requirement to do so and that we have put in place a number of changes to make from the Department of Homeland Security to improve some humanitarian components,” Psaki explained.

Psaki insisted, however, that “We still feel that the program is inefficient, inhumane and we did not eagerly reimplement it.”

Finally answering the question, Psaki concluded, “In terms of people who are skeptics, we are absolutely committed to doing everything we can as we are required by court order to implement this to take steps to ensure that we are injecting additional humanitarian considerations and providing the assistance that we have promised to people who are participating in the program.”

.@PressSec Jen Psaki: “I would say first to all of these people, that it is not our preference to be reimplementing and reinstituting the Migrant Protection Protocol. We are doing that because of a court order and a legal requirement to do so.” https://t.co/uWOygzHL5P pic.twitter.com/8YAqhZgXZA

— The Hill (@thehill) December 6, 2021