Biden Refers to 'People Who Are Seeking to Enter the United States Between Ports of Entry'

The Biden administration insists that the porous southwest border is "closed." His spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre said it on Tuesday: "But the fact of the matter is, the border is closed..." she told reporters accompanying the president to the NATO summit in Madrid.

However, in a statement on the recent heatstroke deaths of 51 foreigners smuggled into the United States, the President did not use the term illegal alien, now frowned upon by immigration advocates. He did not even say "undocumented migrants."

Instead, Biden referred to the hundreds of thousands of...