ABC News Reporter: There Is ‘Almost Nothing’ Biden Can ‘Say or Do’ To Curb Immigration Surge

President Joe Biden is arguing the current surge in immigrants coming to the southern border has nothing to do with him or his policies, and is instead just an annual occurrence.

During his first press conference since taking office, Biden denied that the perception of him being a “moral, decent man” is fueling the surge.

However, ABC News’ Cecilia Vega said on Thursday during coverage of his press conference that his policy of sheltering unaccompanied migrant children will encourage families to send their children to the border.

“ can blame President Trump. He can address these root causes. But the reality is they’re still allowing, as a policy, children to stay,” Vega said.

She continued, “And when you’re talking about families who are as desperate and in the most violent conditions — that it’s really unfathomable for us to imagine as Americans because it is so completely foreign to what we have in this country — that they are making this life or death decision to send their child north over keep their kids in their home country at the risk of death there.”

“There is almost nothing the president can say or do at this point that will counter that message. If the policy is they’re staying, that’s what families are going to see and hear,” she added.

“These families, many of them, are saying they are coming because they believe this is a more compassionate administration. And the president did not back away from that.”

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During his first press conference as president, Biden claimed