To this, the White House defended Biden, saying that he was only making a broader point on why it is good to be a country of immigrants in reaction to criticism that the president was being xenophobic in his recent remarks about India, Japan, China, and Russia.
Karine Jean-Pierre denied that Biden’s comment on Ukraine doesn’t insult America’s allies and partners, accusing them of knowing ‘very well’ how much the president ‘respects’ them.
That is what the man was talking about today. He was not talking only about this country but, in general, about the importance of being an immigrant country for our country. She said it makes our country stronger; that is what he was speaking about.
Even Biden has not left the xenophobic comments untouched that he made during a Democratic Party fundraising event on Wednesday, where he said that the QUAD partners of India, including Japan, China, and Russia, do not accept migrants, which is unbeneficial for the economic progress of those countries.
“It is because of you and many of you that our economy is growing. We welcome immigrants,” Biden was quoted by news agency Reuters as saying.
Justifying the President’s statements, Jean-Pierre mentioned that Biden was “talking about the importance of being in a country of immigrants, especially when you look at the dreadful attacks that we have witnessed in the recent past, and particularly in the last couple of years on immigrants.
Her words, the White House press secretary further stated that Biden will always be “very clear” about what he wants to say concerning issues important to the people of America. We know that the United States is a country of immigrants.
Everyone living and working here now had to go through this journey once or multiple times. That matters. And we’ve seen such falsification. For example, these are some of the things that we have seen. It will not change. Therefore, the President will never avoid it”, she said.
Though the Biden administration has tried to explain the president’s remark, critics from opposition political parties have taken it as evidence that the president is working on policies that will harm the economy through immigration control.
