White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre attacked a federal judge for “sabotage” Friday after the jurist blocked the potential mass release of migrants at the US-Mexico border — as President Biden offered no comment on the crisis at his only public event of the day.
Jean-Pierre made the unusual attack on Florida US District Judge Kent Wetherell hours after he forbade the release of migrants on “parole” without a court date if detention capacity is exceeded, issuing the order hours before the end of the Title 42 COVID-19 expulsion program.
“On the ruling that you just laid out to me — so look, the way we see that, it’s sabotage, it’s pure and simple. That’s how that reads to us,” Jean-Pierre said. “The claims that CBP is allowing or encouraging release of migrants is just categorically false … and it is a harmful ruling.”
In fact, The Post and other outlets have reported on hundreds of migrants being sent on to the American interior from border cities. In El Paso, Texas, alone, more than 1,100 migrants were released from US Customs and Border Protection custody on Thursday.
Jean-Pierre reaffirmed her choice of words moments later, again saying, “it’s a harmful ruling … we need Congress — beyond the ruling, beyond what we’re seeing from the sabotage, pure and simple … we want Congress to act.”
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