White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters Thursday that southern border Republican officials busing migrants to cities on the East Coast are “using” them as a “political tool.”
Jean-Pierre’s comments came in response to questions about Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser’s Thursday request to mobilize the National Guard to help deal with the hundreds of migrants arriving in the city by bus.
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The press secretary referred questions about the National Guard to the Department of Defense before turning her attacks against those Republicans, including Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.
“That is shameful, and that is just wrong,” she added. “What Republicans are doing, the way that they’re meddling in the process and using migrants as a political pawn is just wrong.”
Still, reporters pressed Jean-Pierre on whether the White House “preference” would be for migrants to stay in “small towns in Texas and Arizona” rather than coming to big cities.
“That is not what I said. They said that they’re sending migrants to big cities on purpose, using them as a political point,” she responded. “I’m saying is what Republicans are doing is wrong, and there is a process in place, and we should follow the process. There’s a legal process in place, and they should follow it.”
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