‘Don’t know’ what shutting down the border means ‘exactly,’ White

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said there are “different definitions” of what it means to shut down the border when pressed if President Biden’s recent immigration rhetoric is any different from comments then-President Trump made in 2018 which critics cited as “racist.” 

“Back in the winter of 2018 and the spring of 2019, President Trump vowed to shut down the border with Mexico using almost the identical language that the president used on Friday. Many, many, if not most, if not practically all Democrats called that xenophobic and even racist. Why shouldn’t people make the same conclusion about this president’s threat to shut down the entire border with Mexico?” a reporter asked the press secretary on Monday.

“We believe the new enforcement tools that currently don’t exist that we believe will be part of this bipartisan agreement will be fair. We believe … it’ll be tough, but it will be fair,” Jean-Pierre responded.

She was then pressed that Biden did not say last week that the administration would use “enhanced enforcement to improve the processing of people at the border” and was instead much stronger by saying he would shut the border down.

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“Why isn’t that the same thing that Trump did?” the reporter questioned after a short back-and-forth with Jean-Pierre.

“There are different definitions, right, of what that looks…