WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden met with the parents of Austin Tice, an American journalist who went missing in Syria in 2012, at the White House on Monday after journalists encouraged him over the weekend to prioritize Tice’s case.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki confirmed the meeting took place, noting the president’s national security team has been in frequent contact with the Tice family since December of last year.
“The president reiterated his commitment to continue to work through all available avenues to secure Austin’s long overdue return to his family,” Psaki said in a statement, and “further emphasized that his administration will work relentlessly until Austin and other Americans held hostage and wrongfully detained worldwide are safely at home with their loved ones.”
