Tuesday 22 November 2022 07:08 PM Karine Jean-Pierre calls GOP leader Kevin McCarthy's border trip a 'political ... trends now

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White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre insisted Republicans have 'no plan' to address immigration and engage only in 'political stunts' as GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy leads a delegation from Congress to the border in El Paso. 

'McCarthy has no plan. The Republican Party has no plan. They do nothing except do political stunts,' Jean-Pierre told reporters about the GOP-led trip in a news briefing Tuesday. 

'He goes down there and he does a political stunt, like many Republicans do, that we have seen them do, but he actually is not putting forth a plan, a plan to help us, you know, deal with an issue that we're all seeing that you all are reporting,' she continued. 

Jean-Pierre said that Biden had put forth a comprehensive immigration plan on his 'first day' in the White House. 

She went on: 'We've partnered with Mexico and Guatemala to tackle the criminal smuggling networks preying on immigrants. Those efforts have already resulted in 1000s of arrests because of the work that this President has done. He bought 20 leaders together to collaboratively manage the immigration challenge impacting the whole western hemisphere. And we're stopping fentanyl before it even makes it to the streets of the United States. So we have a plan.'