The Biden administration thinks you are stupid. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said that Joe Biden has “done more to secure the border than anybody else.” She delivered that statement with a straight face to the press corps and no one laughed at her.

It’s a breathtaking statement, to be sure. More than 7 million illegal aliens have crossed over the southern border during Biden’s time in the White House. The administration has a policy of allowing a great number of them to remain in the United States as they wait for their asylum claims to be processed. Very few will qualify for asylum, as the immigration laws stand now, as most come here for jobs and to join family members. Yet, they continue to come and overwhelm Border Patrol and other law enforcement along the border in unprecedented numbers.

KJP was asked about the growing frustration among many Democrats, especially with the 2024 elections on the horizon, and she sang her boss’s praises. It’s what she is paid to do, of course, but even for this administration, her words were award-winning – she could easily earn the Gaslight Award of 2023 with them.

“Look, the president has done what he can from here, from the federal government, from the White House to put forth and manage our border in a safe and humane way to respect the dignity of every human, as he says all the time, and making sure that our communities are safe, and you have seen him do that,” Jean-Pierre said.

She later said: “The president has done more to secure the border and to deal with this issue of immigration than anybody else. He really has. June saw the single largest month-to-month drop in unlawful border crossing because of the policies this president put in place.”

OMG. This one wins the Gaslight Award of 2023 https://t.co/jSO9a0t5er

— Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) August 31, 2023

Indeed.

The most irritating part of KJP’s gaslighting schtick to the White House press corps is that they don’t question such absurd claims. I think back to when the previous administration was securing the U.S.-Mexico border and the daily barrage of questions Trump’s press secretaries received from a very hostile press corps. One reporter screamed at Sarah Huckabee-Sanders, “How do you sleep at night?” when the questioning was on detaining families and children along the border. Remember the kids in cages drama? It’s back.

President Biden justified his open borders policy as a humanitarian response to the appalling media revelations that the Trump-era Border Patrol had 2,600 “children in cages.” Today there are 12,000 children in cages + 85,000 children have disappeared.

— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) August 31, 2023

As President, I will end this humanitarian crisis once and for all. I will secure the border and destroy the business model of the human trafficking cartels. I will expand lawful, orderly immigration. And I will change U.S. policies that generate refugees into our country.

— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) August 31, 2023

Who knew a Democrat candidate for President would be concerned about securing the southern border? That’s how bad the Biden border crisis is – it has opened the door for Biden’s challenger to ding him on the issue.

It’s all about millions of new Democrat voters and KJP essentially said so this week.

JUST IN: Karine Jean-Pierre SLIPS UP, says Joe Biden has single-handedly expanded pathways to citizenship for illegals, gets FACT-CHECKED in real-time:

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— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) August 31, 2023

I’m sure everything is fine.

Not only has Joe Biden thrown open the southern border to prove he is not Donald Trump, which we already knew anyway, but he is prosecuting Governor Abbott who has been left to fend for himself in protecting the Texas border with Mexico. Abbott began Operation Lone Star in March 2021 and the Biden DOJ has fought him ever since. Abbott is defending his buoy barrier in the Rio Grande River at Eagle Pass now. Think about that – the American president is trying to stop a governor from protecting a sovereign border. Biden’s top job is to protect the homeland, but, never mind.

The administration describes Abbott’s efforts as political stunts.

Jean-Pierre also said at the time: “We continue to see political stunts from many Republicans out there and that’s not how we’re going to fix this issue. They want to secure the border, we’ve been doing that work on our own, and we’re asking them to, ‘Hey, you know what? There’s an immigration reform plan that the president put out on the first day, they should work with us and do this in a bipartisan way.'”

You can’t make this up.

The problem with the Democrats’ “immigration reform” plan is that they demand blanket amnesty of all illegal aliens. That’s a deal-breaker for Republicans. Why would we reward law-breakers? Republicans were burned when Reagan agreed to amnesty during his administration. Democrats want the future voters. Republicans want law and order on the border. Just enforce the laws already on the books and put enough personnel on the border. That would be a solid start to bringing the situation back under control.