On Saturday’s Good Morning America, ABC White Home correspondent MaryAlice Parks issued a press launch for the Biden administration’s mind-boggling choice to cancel border-wall development tasks in the midst of a border disaster. Liberal bias permits liberal shamelessness.
Parks used the standard Democrat spin that the Trump administration solely constructed 80 miles of “new wall” and repeated the canard that the border disaster is Trump’s fault.
Anchor Dan Harris started the report by recalling that the Biden administration could be sending funding again to the Protection Division that had been allotted by Trump for border wall development.
DAN HARRIS: In the meantime, right here at dwelling, the Biden administration is now shifting to cancel funding for the border wall and return the funds to the Pentagon. ABC’s White Home correspondent, MaryAlice Parks, is on the South Garden with that story. MaryAlice, good morning to you.
MARYALICE PARKS: Good morning to you, Dan. From day one, we have seen President Biden break free from President Trump’s border insurance policies. And now this newest transfer, the administration saying they’re formally returning billions of {dollars} again to the Division of Protection which were diverted for border wall development. And such as you stated, they’re planning to cancel all current development contracts there on the border wall.
The Trump administration solely constructed about 80 miles of recent wall the place wall hadn’t existed earlier than.
Parks seemed like a lawyer cited “new wall the place wall hadn’t existed earlier than.” In the event you changed a rickety dam that did not stop any water from flowing by means of, wouldn’t it sound credible to say “however they did not construct a brand new dam the place a dam hadn’t existed earlier than”?
Reality-checkers have famous this legalism, but additionally famous the fact that more than 400 miles of recent wall have been constructed, with a number of hundred miles of improved wall changing the shoddy, ineffectual obstacles that had been beforehand there. The argument that the improved border wall had lowered unlawful crossings in these areas the place it was constructed was completely ignored.
She then repeated the Jen Psaki spin pushing blame onto Trump with out even making an attempt to fact-check the claims:
Some Republicans — as you possibly can think about — are blasting the Biden administration, saying that this may exacerbate the migrant disaster. However the White Home wrote in a press release that they inherited a damaged immigration system that wasted billions of taxpayer {dollars} and neither saved the American folks secure nor adhered to our values. Now, they are saying the cash will go as an alternative to daycares and colleges on army bases. The massive query now: What’s going to occur to the wall general? The administration says they’re nonetheless reviewing all of it.
This blatantly ignores the unlawful immigrants who credit score Biden’s dramatic easing of immigration enforcement as their purpose for speeding the border. That is extra repeating than reporting.
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