During yesterday’s press briefing, Fox News reporter Peter Doocy asked Biden press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre about the White House’s policy on unvaxxed travelers coming into the United States.
Doocy noted that thousands of illegal immigrants are crossing the border into the US without being vaccinated or proving their vaccination status.
Q How come migrants are allowed to come into this country unvaccinated but world-class tennis players are not?
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Are you — you’re talking about which world-class tennis player?
Q Novak Djokovic.
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: So as far — you know, just to — just since you asked about me — about him — you asked me about him. So, visa records are confidential under U.S. law. Therefore, the U.S. government cannot discuss the details of individual visa cases. Due to privacy reasons, the U.S. government also does not comment on medical information of individual travelers.
As it relates to the tennis — the tennis pla- — player, look, those questions regarding vaccination requirements is — is — I defer you to CDC. This is a CDC requirement for foreign nationals. This is something that they decide. This is — so, this is something that is up to them — the U.S. Open and their participant protocols. I’d refer you to them; they have their own specific protocols as well.
Q But just —
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: So they’re two different things. They’re two —
Q As — but —
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: — different things.
Q But — so, how is it two different things? Somebody unvaccinated comes over on a plane; you say that’s not okay. Somebody walks into Texas or Arizona unvaccinated; they’re allowed to stay. Why?
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: That — but that’s not how it works.
Q That’s —
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Like, we actually —
Q That’s what’s happening.
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: No.
Q I know that that’s not what you guys want to happen, but that is what happ— what is happening.
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: But that’s not — it’s not like somebody walks over and — (laughs) — that’s not — that’s not how —
Q That’s exactly what’s happening.
What happen to all the media fact-checkers, probably just taking a four-year vacation.