It’s always fun when an Obama official embarrasses himself…On Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest tried to pass-off the same tired, evasive answers to a group of reporters asking about the border’s security or, more specifically, it’s lack thereof.
After a reporter asked the straight-forward question of, “Is the border secure?” Earnest ducked and dodged and answered,
“The issue we’re seeing at the border right now…”
The reporter stopped Earnest and asked his simple question again. “Is the border secure?”
“I will tell you that there are more resources that are dedicated to this border right now and securing it than there ever has been…” The reporter asked his question again.
The reporter, apparently sensing that the shady spokesman would not address the question, reworked the question and noted that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has criticized Republicans for wanting to wait until the border was secure before addressing immigration reform. The border, Reid claimed, is secure.
The reporter asked if the Obama Administration agreed with that assessment. Earnest evaded once again and claimed that the Senate’s so-called “Gang of Eight” bill that calls for amnesty in exchange for the mere promise of increased border security, calls for border security and that House Republicans ought to champion the legislation.
Laughably, after the reporter, once again, tried to get Earnest to assert whether the border is considered secure by this administration, Earnest accused Republicans of the “deplorable act” of “playing politics with this very serious situation.”
The whole absurd exchange demonstrates the extremes to which this administration goes in order to keep from levelling with the American people.
The border is obviously far from secure as tens-of-thousands of illegals continue to overwhelm Southern border law enforcement agents. President Obama may have added additional border patrol agents, but has systematically undercut their ability to do their jobs by unilaterally granting de facto amnesty to the millions of illegals who have come here in violation of our laws and slowing deportations down to a trickle.
Earnest and President Obama like to claim that the Senate’s bill provides for border security, but what should Republicans conclude from such a promise for the future if current enforcement laws are disregarded by the President who relies upon illegals as a crucial Democratic voting population?
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