By Melanie Arter | April 16, 2021 | 12:39pm EDT
US customs and border patrol agents and riot policemen take part in a border security drill at the US-Mexico international bridge, as seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on October 29, 2018. (Photo by HERIKA MARTINEZ/AFP via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) - White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki denied Friday that there was ever “a formal declaration or a formal agreement” for Northern Triangle countries - Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras - to maintain a troop presence at the border.
This after the Special Envoy for the Northern Triangle Ricardo Zúniga on Wednesday denied that there were any agreements for those countries to provide security at the border.
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Kristin Fisher in the White House Briefing Room rotation, it fell to other reporters to offer tough questions to Press Secretary Jen Psaki and the
New York Post’s Steven Nelson delivered by getting under Psaki’s skin over Vice President Harris’s travel schedule in light of her supposed role in helping to tame the border crisis.
Nelson noted that she’s “been put in charge of addressing the root causes of the border crisis” and spoke last week with the Guatemalan president, “but she hasn’t visited the border or Central America or spoken to the leaders of El Salvador or Honduras.”
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CNN committed journalistic malpractice in the first degree today. Anchor Alisyn Camerota interviewed Biden press secretary Jen Psaki at length, asking about the coronavirus and vaccines, the Derek Chauvin trial, and Biden s multi-trillion-dollar infrastructure bill. But the border crisis drew
nothing.
On the daytime-dominating Chauvin trial, she floated Psaki a fluffy softball, asking what has struck [Biden] it. Psaki said that in response, Biden reiterated his own personal commitment to making equity a part of what we do in this government. And Psaki chipped in her own personal reaction, saying that the testimony of one of the witnesses yesterday gave her chills.