Karine Jean-Pierre Asked If USCIS Can Handle All The Applications From Biden Immigration Proposal

4 months ago

At a press briefing on Tuesday, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked about President Biden's immigration executive order.

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00:00Jeremy, it has been a long time.

00:02Jeremy?

00:03Jeremy, Josh.

00:04It has been a long time.

00:06Too long.

00:08It has been too long, I forgot your name.

00:11Okay.

00:12No, no, you know I love you, Josh.

00:14It has indeed been a long time.

00:17I was thinking about my Jeremy in the back, so as I was...

00:20Anyway, whatever.

00:21I'll take it.

00:22Things are happening.

00:23It's good to see you.

00:24It's good to see you.

00:25Good to see you.

00:26Two subjects.

00:27Yes.

00:28On immigration today, is the administration confident that U.S. citizenship and immigration

00:34services can handle possibly hundreds of thousands of new applications given the current backlog

00:40of other immigration applications?

00:42So, look, we have always said, and I said this at the top, like the way that we would

00:47love to move forward is in a more balanced, a balanced approach, obviously, and get that

00:52bipartisanship from Congress.

00:55The first day of his administration, as I've already stated, and I've stated this many

00:59times, we wanted to see a comprehensive immigration process, a legislation.

01:05That's what the President put forward.

01:07He wanted to see that.

01:08Congress never moved.

01:09And when they did decide to move on something, we worked in a bipartisan way.

01:12The former President told Republicans in Congress, Republican senators more specifically, and

01:16told them, don't move on this.

01:18Don't move on this because it's going to hurt me and help Joe Biden.

01:21And we had a bipartisan approach, which would have made the immigration system more fair

01:26and tougher.

01:28And we didn't move in that way.

01:30And so the President has said that he's going to take actions.

01:33He's going to take actions to secure the border, as he did with the executive order that he

01:37signed just about two weeks ago or so, and that he also wants to make sure we keep American

01:42families together.

01:44So, look, we're obviously going to hear from the President later today.

01:51And we believe that we can get this done.

01:53We believe it's an important part of the President's immigration policy.

01:59And keeping American families together, making sure that we are protecting American families

02:05is a priority for this President.

02:07And so we believe that this could move forward.

Karine Jean-Pierre Asked If USCIS Can Handle All The Applications From Biden Immigration Proposal

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