Psaki parrots Mayorkas on border: ‘Now is not the time to come’

Published March 17, 2021 8:35pm ET



Less than 24 hours after President Biden gave an interview discouraging migrants from traveling north, White House press secretary Jen Psaki pushed a softer message from her podium.

“You’ve heard the president say in this interview that he conducted that he is encouraging people not to come. Now is not the time to come. This is not a safe journey for people to take of any age,” Psaki said during her Wednesday briefing.

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