The White House downplayed a series of media revelations about a breach at Mar-a-Lago by a Chinese national by saying it wasn't as bad as 'assaults, rapes, murders' and other deaths at the Mexican border. White House deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley made the stark comparison Thursday, as he sought to turn attention to the southern border – which Trump had said he might close down this week – rather than the president's exclusive club in West Palm Beach. He launched the attack following reports of a counterintelligence investigation of the Chinese woman who was arrested inside the president's club with four drive and a thumb drive with 'suspicious malware' after talking her way through security. 'I wish Democrats and the Media cared as much about the countless security breaches at the southern border - resulting in the assaults, rapes, murders, and drug deaths of hundreds of thousands of American citizens - as they do about the "security breach" at Mar-a-Lago,' Gidley wrote Thursday afternoon. White House Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley dismissed the "security breach" at Mar-a-Lago and compared it to rapes and murders committed by illegal immigrants Gidley used quotation marks when referencing the 'security breach' at Mar-a-Lago. Gidley's border argument follows that a powerful Democratic committee chair is investigating the security situation at Mar-a-Lago to evaluate any threats to the president. Trump told reporters Thursday he is not 'ready to close' the southern border, despite issuing dramatic threats that he may do so. He said he would give Mexico a 'one-year warning.' The focus on security followed the arrest of Chinese woman Yujing Zhang inside the club. According to court documents, she had four cell phones, a laptop, and a thumb drive on her during the arrest – raising the possibility of a coordinated espionage attack. The White House is downplaying a security breach at Mar-a-Lago following the arrest of Yujing Zhang, a Chinese woman, who tried to enter the club over the weekend A member of the Secret Service stands guard as US President Donald Trump departs Mar-a-Lago March 25, 2018 in Palm Beach, Florida A group of Central American migrants -mostly Hondurans- climb the border fence between Mexico and the United States as others try to bring it down, near El Chaparral border crossing, in Tijuana, Baja California State, Mexico, on November 25, 2018. Gidley compared border security to the breach at Trump's private club 'I wish Democrats and the Media cared as much about the countless security breaches at the southern border,' said Gidley Her arrest followed revelations about Orchids of Asia day spa owner Cindy Yang, who advertised efforts in Chinese to arrange access to Trump family members. Mar-a-Lago members pay a $200,000 initiation fee for club membership. My pointing to 'hundreds of thousands' of rapes, assaults, and other crimes, Gidley is using a dubious counting method the president has used, only to be called out by fact checkers. Studies have shown that immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than native-born Americans. The method fails to account for crimes committed by any population, and may include arrests rather than convictions, as well as crimes committed before an immigrant was arrested, an ABC fact-checker pointed out in January. The security set-up at Trump's Mar-a-Lago club is coming in for increased scrutiny after the arrest of a Chinese woman exposed how the clubs own staff decides when to waive in people who aren't on an approved list of entrants. Chinese woman Yujing Zhang was arrested at the club after first telling an agent she was heading for the club pool. She made it through two levels of U.S. Secret Service screening after a club official decided to let her in. Court records say she was carrying four cellphones, a laptop, one external hard drive and a thumb drive that contained 'malicious malware.' The Secret Service made clear in a statement issued Tuesday night after the incident that it is the club, not the agency, who determines who gains admission to the president's private club – a for-profit venture where members pay a $200,000 initiation fee. President Donald Trump was at his nearby golf course when the Chinese woman was arrested with two passports, four cell phones and computer drive with 'malware' Closely guarded: Secret Service officers and agents Zhang got waived into the club despite not being on a pre-approved list of guests, and not even clearly stating her supposed connection to a club member or identifying a legitimate event she was there to attend. 'The Secret Service does not determine who is invited or welcome at Mar-a-Lago; this is the responsibility of the host entity,' according to the agency's statement. 'The Mar-a-Lago club management determines which members and guests are granted access to the property. This access does not afford an individual proximity to the President or other Secret Service protectees.' President Trump was at his near by golf club at the time of the incident last weekend. President Trump wanted to keep Mar-a-Lago as a welcoming place to visitors even after he was elected, according to a Washington Post account. 'The president has no idea who most of the people around him at the club are,' a White House official told the paper. 'You pay and you get in.' Agents provide physical screening for hundreds of visitors, and whose names are checked against lists collected in advance of their arrival. In the case of Zhang, a Mar-a-Lago staffer decided to let her in, believing her to be related to a club member with the same last name 'due to a potential language barrier issue,' according to court documents. According to a Secret Service agent's affidavit: 'Had ZHANG not falsely portrayed herself as a club member seeking to visit the pool, and instead advised she was there to attend the non-existent "United Nations Friendship Event'' between China and the United States, her access would have declined by U.S. Secret Service at the preliminary inspection point.' It lists a total of seven agents who were present at checkpoints or who the woman passed by on the way to her second screening. Club member Cindy Yang had advertised two events for Saturday, the day of the arrest, although Zhang did not name either of them. Yang is the former owner of Orchids of Asia Day Spa, where New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft was arrested and charged with soliciting prostitution. She is accused of trying to sell access to Trump by posting pictures of herself with Trump and family members at events. Yang, 45, seen in foreground with President Trump and a guest at Mar-a-Lago in February at a Mar-a-Lago Super Bowl party Democrats in Congress have begun investigating the security situation at the club – and whether it could pose a danger to the president or to U.S. national security. House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland is set to get a Secret Service briefing Thursday. 'We want to make sure that the Secret Service is being the very best that they can be, and we want to find out more about exactly what kind of security they had down there in Florida,' Cummings said. 'I think it's very, very, very, very important that the president be protected. And I feel very strongly about that.' Trump said on Wednesday he's not concerned at all about security at his Florida residence. 'I'm not concerned at all,' he said at the White House. 'I think that was just a fluke situation and I think that the person sitting at the front desk did a very good job to be honest with you.' He also wouldn't say if security measures would change in wake of the incident. 'Secret Service is fantastic. These are fantastic people. And the end result is it was good. I think probably we'll see what happened. Where she's from. Who she is, but the result is they were able to get her and she's now suffering the consequences of whatever it is she had in mind but I would say I could not be happier with Secret Service. Secret Service has done a fantastic job from day one. Very happy with them,' he said. Those probing security at the club will be touching an issue near and dear to the president. 'For the president, I think Mar-a-Lago is not so much a club, but his Xanadu,' club member and Newsmax publisher Chris Ruddy told the Associated Press. 'My feeling is he also sees it as place of destiny and fate because Mrs. Post wanted it as the winter White House,' he said, referencing Marjorie Merriwether Post, who built it.All rights reserved for this news site dailymail and under his responsibility