Joe Biden

Remarks in an Exchange With Reporters Upon Returning From Camp David, Maryland

March 21, 2021

Mexico-U.S. Border

Q. Are you thinking of going to the border?

The President. Say what?

Q. Are you thinking of going to the border?

The President. At some point, I will. Yes.

Detention of Migrants at the Mexico-U.S. Border

Q. Do you want to see firsthand what's going on in those facilities?

The President. I know what's going on in those facilities.

Q. And do you——

Migration During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Q. Mr. President, why do you think the message to the migrants, telling them to stay home and don't come now—why do you think that hasn't resonated yet? What more can be done, sir?

The President. A lot more. We're in the process of doing it now, including making sure that we reestablish what existed before, which was they can stay in place and make their case from their home country.

Thank you.

Q. And when will you allow the media into those facilities?

NOTE: The President spoke in the late afternoon on the South Lawn at the White House.

Joseph R. Biden, Jr., Remarks in an Exchange With Reporters Upon Returning From Camp David, Maryland Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/348912

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