Bethany Blankley (The Center Square)
During Tuesday night’s presidential debate, Vice President Kamala Harris deflected when answering a question about the ongoing border crisis.
Asked why the administration waited until six months before the election to act on the border crisis or whether she would have done anything differently with President Joe Biden, Harris did not answer. She deflected the question by repeating her previous assertion that she prosecuted international criminal organizations while serving as California’s attorney general from 2011 to 2017.
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“I’m the only person on this stage who has prosecuted an international criminal organization for gun, drug and human trafficking offenses,” she said.
She also repeated her claim that she would sign the U.S. Senate border bill, which has not made any progress in the Democratic-controlled Senate.
“Some of the most conservative members of the United States Senate introduced a border security bill that I supported,” she said. “The bill would have provided 1,500 additional border patrol officers to help those who are currently working overtime to do their jobs.”
As a U.S. senator, Harris opposed budget increases to hire thousands of new Border Patrol and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and advocated for abolishing ICE detention facilities that hold the most dangerous criminals, The Center Square reported. She also Abolish All of ICE.
The Senate border bill expansion Critics say the current failed policy codifies mass immigration and negates national sovereignty.
Harris also repeated the claim that former President Donald Trump “called some people in Congress and said, ‘Snatch this bill.’ You know why? Because he would rather run on problems than solve them.”
The bill failed because many Senate Democrats did not support it and began their own campaign. Keep your distance Numerous polls have shown that a majority of Americans disapprove of the Biden-Harris administration’s border policies.
Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana also said the bill was doomed from the start. He called on the Senate to pass H.R. 2, which he and others say is the strongest border security bill available, but the Senate refused to take up the bill.
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When asked about being appointed to “address the root causes of migration,” she did not give a single example of the root causes or say what she had done to address, fix or remedy them.
Nor did she mention the record number of more than 12.5 million aliens who entered the U.S. illegally under her watch (including 2 million who evaded capture), totaling more than the populations of 45 states. If illegal border crossers were a state, they would be the sixth most populous, surpassing Illinois. Reported.
She also Record numbers of known or suspected terrorists More than 1,700 people have been arrested trying to enter the U.S. since fiscal year 2021, the highest number in U.S. history.
When asked about her change of stance on issues like building a border wall, she reiterated her assertion that “my values ​​haven’t changed” after reports in Center Square and other outlets. Fact-checked She has long opposed building and funding a border wall.
“During the debate, she never once revealed any plans for border security or deporting violent criminals, nor did she express condolences to the Americans whose families have been murdered or raped by criminal aliens released under her watch. The Biden-Harris parole program is directly related to violent criminals who entered the country illegally, remained in the country, and then committed heinous crimes against Americans,” The Center Square reported. Reported.
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Earlier this year, the brother of Rachel Morin, a Maryland resident who was raped and murdered by a Venezuelan living in the country illegally, supported Trump for president, saying, “My sister’s death was preventable. The monster arrested for Rachel’s murder entered the United States illegally after killing a woman in El Salvador. Joe Biden and his appointed ‘border agent’ Kamala Harris opened the border to him and others like him, empowering them to victimize innocent people. Yet to this day, we have not heard from Joe Biden or Kamala Harris. They have never apologized.”
“When Rachel was murdered, President Trump called my family to offer his condolences. He wanted to meet with us. He cared about us. That’s leadership. And we need real leadership in the White House.”
Alexis Nungaray, an angel mom from Houston who also supported Trump, said she had not heard from Harris despite attending a fundraiser in Houston after her daughter was strangled to death by two Venezuelan men who had entered the country illegally. The men were released into the country under Biden-Harris administration policies, but that must change, Nungaray said.
“Totally innocent people are being lost to heinous crimes that should never have happened in the first place.”
Distributed with permission From Centre Square.
