FNC’s Peter Doocy Spars With Karine Jean-Pierre On Illegal Immigration [VIDEO]

“We have been in regular touch with Mayor Bowser and her team,” Jean-Pierre said. “I said this last week about Republicans using migrants as a political tool, and that is shameful and that is just wrong. There is a process in place for managing migrants at the border. This is not it, what they’re doing currently. That includes expelling migrants as required by court order under Title 42, transferring them to ICE custody or placing them in the care of local NGOs as they await further processing.”

“So, the White House’s preference would be for small towns in Texas and Arizona to have to take care of these migrants rather than a large, metropolitan city like Washington, D.C.,” Doocy said.

“That is not what I said,” Jean-Pierre said.

“That is what you said,” the Fox News reporter interjected. “You said you think people are using migrants.”

“Yeah, they are,” the press secretary argued. “They’re sending migrants to big cities on purpose using them as a political ploy.”

Doocy asked where the migrants should go, if not to big cities. Jean-Pierre answered there is an immigration process for locating migrants in the U.S.

“There’s a process when they come to a big city and now the mayor said she needs the National Guard?” Doocy pressed. Jean-Pierre repeated that Republicans are “using migrants.”