{"id":85077,"date":"2021-09-20T21:00:24","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T01:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=85077"},"modified":"2021-09-20T21:00:24","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T01:00:24","slug":"its-not-the-same-thing-jen-psaki-asked-why-migrants-walking-across-border-dont-have-to-show-vaccine-proof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=85077","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;It&#8217;s Not The Same Thing&#8221;: Jen Psaki Asked Why Migrants Walking Across Border Don&#8217;t Have To Show Vaccine Proof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>After the earlier Biden-mandated vaccine requirement\u00a0for federal workers and all armed forces branches, and with the city of D.C. itself now\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.dc.gov\/release\/mayor-bowser-announces-covid-19-vaccination-requirements-all-adults-regularly-schools-and\">issuing a vaccine mandate<\/a>\u00a0for public school\u00a0student athletes and child care center staffers, a big segment of the US public is questioning: where will it end? After all, even a potential future requirement to show proof of Covid vaccine to merely travel domestically on an airline is still &#8220;on the table&#8221; as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/covid-19\/white-house-debating-vaccines-air-travel-after-fauci-said-hed-support-mandate\">an &#8220;option&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With these stringent and watchful federal, state and local\u00a0regulations -including masking in some places &#8211; being increasingly imposed on American citizens,\u00a0<strong>one might assume\u00a0<em>at minimum<\/em>\u00a0there are vaccine and Covid testing requirements in place for migrants<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>who are now walking across the border<\/strong>, often setting up\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/us-homeland-security-chief-heads-border-removal-migrant-camp-accelerates-2021-09-20\/\">camps in crowded conditions<\/a>\u00a0on the US side of the border. But that would be to assume wrongly, given the following exchange between a Fox White House correspondent and Biden&#8217;s press secretary Jen Psaki&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH0sInRmd192ZGxfY2hpcnBfMTI3OTQiOnsiYnVja2V0IjoidmRsX2FuZF9jaGlycCIsInZlcnNpb24iOjN9fQ%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1440011003849216000&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fpolitical%2Fits-not-same-thing-jen-psaki-asked-why-migrants-walking-across-border-dont-have-show&amp;sessionId=f095332021cd6a6f7ec95f60caf3997e2c19e7a2&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=1890d59c%3A1627936082797&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1440011003849216000\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"Advert_desktop__1J5vD Advert_tablet__3QEBr Advert_mobile__1rlLc Advert_placement__1I4yb Advert_align__N0_fw\">\n<aside id=\"in-content-video\" class=\"Advert_verticallySpaced__wnPy3\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/21841313772,21778456762\/zerohedge\/in_content_video_0__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>Journalist Peter Doocy&#8217;s question centered on the even more obvious: if foreign travelers entering the US are required to show proof of a Covid vaccine,\u00a0<strong>then why not such a minimal requirement in place for illegals trying to cross the US-Mexico border?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Is somebody asking the foreign nationals\u00a0who are walking to Del Rio, Texas and who are setting up camps this side of the border for proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test?&#8221; he asked.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Doocy further pointed out that currently those crossing the border don&#8217;t even have to show a negative Covid test,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/20\/jen-psaki-peter-doocy-illegal-migrants-vaccine-coronavirus-covid-19-negative-test-camps\/\">apparently<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;First of all, I can re-address for you what steps we take \u2026&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;So if somebody walks into the country, right across the river, does somebody ask to see their vaccination card?&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0Doocy asked.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Well, let me explain to you again, Peter, how our process works,&#8221;\u00a0the press secretary said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Psaki said that as migrants come across the border, they are screened for symptoms of COVID-19 and quarantined if they are symptomatic.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure class=\"caption caption-img inline-images image-style-inline-images\" role=\"group\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/delrio.jpg?itok=RFZdERr3\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"0e54adf2-479e-4121-821c-38bbd2050df2\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><figcaption><em>Del Rio, TX migrant camp<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And that&#8217;s where Psaki tried to dodge the question altogether, while also implying that no, there are no requirements in place at the border.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>&#8220;They are not intending to stay here for a lengthy period of time,&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0she continued.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;<strong>It\u2019s not the same thing.<\/strong>\u00a0These are individuals, as we\u2019ve noted \u2026 we are expelling individuals based on Title 42 specifically because of COVID. Because we want to prevent a scenario where large numbers of people are gathering, posing a threat to the community and also to the migrants themselves.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"Advert_tablet__3QEBr Advert_mobile__1rlLc Advert_placement__1I4yb Advert_align__N0_fw\">\n<aside id=\"in-content-1\" class=\"Advert_centered__2tRj9 Advert_verticallySpaced__wnPy3\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/21841313772,21778456762\/zerohedge\/in_content_1_0__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Fox correspondent pointed to the hypocrisy and strange double-standard of requiring the vaccine for tens of millions of federal workers and others, and requiring essentially a &#8216;vaccine passport&#8217; for foreigners flying in the country, but\u00a0<strong>when a migrant\u00a0<em>walks\u00a0<\/em>across the border, this is somehow different<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/its-not-same-thing-jen-psaki-asked-why-migrants-walking-across-border-dont-have-show\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/its-not-same-thing-jen-psaki-asked-why-migrants-walking-across-border-dont-have-show<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}