White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is now making another controversy and allegations to divert the attention of the Americans from the dangerous border crisis under the Biden administration.
During a press conference on Friday, Jean-Pierre compared Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to human smugglers after the Republican governors sent illegal migrants to Martha’s Vineyard and US Vice President Kamala Harris’ house.
On Wednesday, DeSantis sent two planes of about 50 migrants and transported them to Martha’s Vineyard while Abbott sent two buses of illegal migrants to Harris’ front steps.
According to the reports, the migrants came from Eagle Pass, Texas. The buses also carried 75-100 migrants from Uruguay, Venezuela, Colombia and Mexico.
“Two Republican governors reportedly lured 100 asylum seekers, including children, onto planes and buses with false premises and then abandoned them on the side of a busy road thousands of miles away with nothing, with nothing but Ziplock bags of their belongings in hand. These were children. They were moms. They were fleeing communism,” Jean-Pierre said in a statement.
The press secretary also accused the governors of using the migrants as “political pawns [and] treated them like chattel in a cruel, premeditated political stunt.”
“These vulnerable migrants were reportedly misled about where they were headed, told they would be headed to — to Boston, misled about what they would be provided when they arrived, promised shelter, refuge, benefits and more. These are the kinds of tactics we see from smugglers in places like Mexico and Guatemala. And for what, a photo op? Because these governors care about creating political theater than creating actual solutions to help folks who are fleeing communism, to help children, to help families,” Jean Pierre lamented.
The new controversial remark that Jean-Pierre made came after Virginia arrested an alleged sexual predator who is apparently an illegal immigrant on warrants from another state for allegedly terrorizing women and girls along a popular Virginia walking trail for months.
The suspect identified as illegal alien, Juan Rodriguez Alfaro, was suspected in a series of at least 21 separate assault and sexual battery-related incidents victimizing girls and women along the Washington and Old Dominion (W&OD) Trail since July.
