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soothsayer

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Wed Mar 10, 2021, 07:53 PM Mar 2021

Jen Psaki dismantles Peter Doocy's migrant fixation: 'The last administration had a morality proble


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"You've been telling migrants from right there for a month now -- all the way back to Feb. 10 -- that now is not the time to come," Doocy said. "But they are coming in bigger numbers every day so do you have a messaging problem?"

"I would say that in the last administration we had a morality problem," Psaki observed, "and children were being pulled from the arms of their parents and kids were being sent back on a treacherous journey and that's not the approach of this administration."

"Certainly that means that more kids will be cross the border," she continued. "We made a policy decision that that was the right humane step to take. But I think it's also important for people to understand that the vast majority of the people that come to our border are turned away."

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