Ross: Are we going to fight over fact checks, or finally solve our border crisis?

Everybody was waiting to hear how Joe Biden would respond to the immigration crisis during the first news conference of his presidency on Thursday.

Well, he responded like this:

“The idea that I’m going to say that if an unaccompanied child ends up at the border, we’re just going to let them starve to death and stay on the other side, I’m not going to do it,” Biden said.

So, he knows the kids will keep coming, and he’s going to try to get them to their relatives, and if not, American taxpayers are going to take care of them until they have someplace safe to go.

He did try to say that the migration numbers were just as bad or worse under Trump, but he did not do well with the fact-checkers on that claim.

The New York Times said his claim that current migration numbers were similar to Trump’s were false — maybe for adults, but for children, the seasonal surge is twice what it was last year.

He also claimed Trump eliminated aid to Central America – the New York Times pronounced that false as well.

So, he fails the fact check on the numbers.

But what we have at the border aren’t numbers — they’re children. Biden is saying that whatever brought them there, the taxpayers of the United States are going to accept responsibility for taking care of them.

He is asking the Vice President to find ways to make conditions less horrible in the countries they’re fleeing, but that’s going to take a while. And so now the question for his critics is pretty simple: Who among you has a better answer?

And if you don’t have a better answer, who among you will be the first to insist that children be sent away to starve? Are the people we sent to Congress going to fight about fact checks, or finally solve the problem?

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