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Psaki On Biden Putting Migrant Kids In Cages: ‘This Is Not Kids Being Kept In Cages’
Psaki: “So it’s a temporary reopening during COVID-19”
During a press briefing earlier this week, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki was asked about the Biden administration’s decision to continue the use of detention centers for migrant children in response to Biden reopening a facility as the number of illegal border crossings has skyrocketed under the new administration.
Fox News reporter Peter Doocy asked Psaki why the administration chose to reopen the facility, which Biden previously suggested was an abuse of human rights under the Trump administration.
“So it’s a temporary reopening during COVID-19,” Psaki responded. “Our intention is very much to close it, but we want to ensure that we can follow COVID protocols, as unaccompanied minors come into the United States.”
“But it’s the same facility that was open for a month in the Trump administration. Summer 2019, that is when Joe Biden said, under Trump, there have been horrifying scenes at the border of kids being kept in cages,” Doocy pointed out. “And Kamala Harris said, basically babies in cages is a human rights abuse being committed by the United States government. So how is this any different than that?”
“We very much feel that way. These are facilities, let me be clear here, one, there’s a pandemic going on,” she said. “I’m sure you’re not suggesting that we have children right next to each other in ways that are not COVID safe, are you?”
“I’m suggesting that Kamala Harris said that this facility, putting people in this facility, was a human rights abuse committed by the United States government and Joe Biden said, under Trump there have been horrifying scenes at the border of kids being kept in cages,” Doocy said. “Now it’s not under Trump, it’s under Biden.”
“This is not kids being kept in cages,” she claimed, implying that the same structures that were “cages” under Trump are no longer cages. “This is kids, this is a facility that was opened, that’s going to follow the same standards as other HHS facilities, It is not a replication, certainly not, that’s never our intention of replicating the immigration policies of the past administration, but we are in a circumstance where we are not going to expel unaccompanied minors at the border, that would be inhumane. That is not what we are going to do here as an administration.”
https://thejeffreylord.com/psaki-on-biden-putting-migrant-kids-in-cages-this-is-not-kids-being-kept-in-cages/
Michael Burgess, MD
@michaelcburgess
Since I didn’t receive a response from Speaker Pelosi, I followed up my letter to @LeaderHoyer and @RepMcGovern because Members should be briefed on this critical issue.
https://twitter.com/michaelcburgess/status/1365082729050693635
Michael Burgess, MD
@michaelcburgess
· Feb 12
Nancy Pelosi must provide Members of Congress a classified briefing on ongoing security threats at the Capitol so that we can make more informed decisions for ourselves, our staff, and our constituents. https://burgess.house.gov/blog/?postid=403035
https://twitter.com/michaelcburgess/status/1360381474260869120
Pelosi ignoring requests for a classified briefing on the ongoing security threats at The Capitol
About That Mysterious Decline in Flu Cases…
What exactly are we to make of the stunning decline in influenza cases we’re seeing this season?
Phil Kerpen has been compiling the CDC’s data, and remarkable doesn’t even begin to describe it.
By the sixth week of last year, around 32% of the roughly 57,000 flu tests reported to the CDC had come back positive. And these numbers are in line with those from the previous four years as well:
In 2019, around 40,000 influenza tests were reported by week six, with roughly 26% positive.
From 2016 thru 2020, an average of around 44,000 influenza tests had been reported by week six, roughly 25% of which were positive
Yet, by the sixth week of 2021, CDC figures show that only 17 of the over 40,800 reported flu tests reported to the CDC this year were positive, which comes to a minuscule .04%!
If these numbers are to be believed, influenza cases have declined by a factor of over 600 this year compared to the previous five-year average.
For all intents and purposes, the flu appears to have vanished.
And it’s not just in America either.
British news outlet, the Independent just reported that not a single one of the almost 700,000 influenza tests reported in England so far this year has come back positive!
Full data and report at
https://redstate.com/michael_thau/2021/02/25/about-that-mysterious-decline-in-flu-cases-n332538
China gave anal COVID-19 tests to U.S. diplomats
Beijing says that the anal tests were made in error.
A report has revealed that the Chinese government used anal swabs to test U.S. diplomats for COVID-19, the New York Post reports.
Beijing says that the anal tests were made in error.
"The State Department never agreed to this kind of testing and protested directly to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs when we learned that some staff were subject to it," a spokesperson from the State Department told VICE.
U.S. officials protested that the procedure was invasive and undignified, the Post reported.
A spokesperson from the Chinese government claimed that the conducting of the tests was "in error" an that the diplomats were exempt from the test, which is otherwise mandatory.
"We have instructed staff to decline this test if it is asked of them, as was done in the past,” the Chinese state spokesperson told VICE.
The spokesperson added that it was unclear how many diplomats or their family members underwent the procedure.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian reportedly denied Thursday that any Americans were asked to take the test.
"To my knowledge…China has never required US diplomatic staff stationed in China to conduct anal swab tests," Zhao said at a Beijing press briefing.
A State Department spokesperson told Reuters that it was "committed to guaranteeing the safety and security of American diplomats and their families, while preserving their dignity."
The Chinese government has been using anal swab COVID-19 tests to test people who are considered to have a higher risk of contracting the virus. The anal variant of the test is considered to be more precise, picking up traces of the virus in fecal matter that may otherwise be missed in the nasal or oral cavity, according to China’s National Health Commission.
https://thepostmillennial.com/china-reportedly-gave-anal-covid-19-tests-to-diplomats
Andrew Desiderio
@AndrewDesiderio
BREAKING via @laraseligman
The U.S. has carried out an airstrike on a structure connected to an Iran-backed militia in Syria, following three separate rocket attacks against U.S. forces in Iraq, according to a defense official.
President Biden ordered the strike.
https://twitter.com/AndrewDesiderio/status/1365087377644007428
U.S. carries out airstrike in Syria after rocket attacks
The strike, ordered by President Biden, was designed to damage the militia group's ability to conduct future attacks.
The U.S. has carried out an airstrike on a structure connected to an Iran-backed militia in Syria, following three separate rocket attacks against U.S. forces in Iraq, according to a defense official.
The strike, which was ordered by President Joe Biden, was designed to damage the militia group's ability to conduct future attacks, the official said.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/25/us-airstrike-syria-rocket-attacks-471680
Kek
Kek
RPD4833
@RPD4833
Syria=FF
No Name Homie,Mouaz Moustafamaking his media rounds pushing for war with Syria.
https://twitter.com/RPD4833/status/1365132479733071876
60 Minutes
@60Minutes
Warning: graphic content
A Syrian military photographer and his friend risked their lives to upload photos of thousands of tortured, dead bodies from Bashar al-Assad’s secret prisons. The images were eventually smuggled out of Syria, also at great peril. https://cbsn.ws/3bw98aB
https://twitter.com/60Minutes/status/1363647572250947586
60 Minutes
@60Minutes
Activist Mouaz Moustafa describes receiving thousands of photos of civilians allegedly tortured to death by the Assad regime, taken and smuggled out of Syria by a former military photographer. The photographer's alias is 'Caesar.’ https://cbsn.ws/3aJ6dw0
https://twitter.com/60Minutes/status/1363949686944628737
Lindsey Graham
@LindseyGrahamSC
Appreciate Biden Administration striking Iranian-backed militia groups in Syria who’ve been pushing attacks against American forces in Iraq and other locations. It is imperative that our enemies know that attacking Americans comes at a cost.
https://politico.com/amp/news/2021/02/25/us-airstrike-syria-471685
https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1365123986791813123
I’m sure the Syrians really appreciated that bomb as well.
This asshole.
Need a couple o spaces bro, mouaz Moustafa
Just so his name can be found in search