Karine Jean-Pierre Says Republicans Wanted to ‘Abruptly’ End Title 42 Border Policy
Posted on AllSides February 3rd, 2023
From The Right
Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images
FACT CHECK
During a White House press briefing on Wednesday, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Republicans had been the ones to push for an end to the Title 42 border policy, but the record demonstrates the opposite.
A reporter asked Jean-Pierre whether the Biden administration would keep or lift Title 42, a public health measure used to easily turn illegal migrants away at the border during the COVID-19 pandemic, even after President Joe Biden ends the coronavirus public health emergency in May.
“What House Republicans were trying to do is they were trying to really barrel...
