By Bethany Blankley (The Middle Sq.)
Through the presidential debate on Tuesday evening, Vice President Kamala Harris deflected when answering questions on the continued border disaster.
When requested “why did the administration wait until six months before the election to act” on the border disaster, and if she would have finished something in a different way from President Joe Biden, Harris didn’t reply the query. She deflected by repeating the declare she’s beforehand made that she prosecuted transnational legal organizations when she was the lawyer common of California from 2011 to 2017.
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“I’m the only person on this stage who has prosecuted transnational criminal organizations for the trafficking of guns drugs and human beings,” she stated.
She additionally repeated a declare that she would signal a U.S. Senate border invoice that went nowhere within the Democratic managed Senate.
“Some of the most conservative members of the United States Senate came up with the border security bill which I supported,” she stated. “That bill would have put 1,500 more border agents on the border to help those folks who are working there right now overtime trying to do their job.”
Whereas a U.S. senator, Harris opposed growing funding to rent 1000’s of recent Border Patrol and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and advocated for eliminating ICE detention services, which home essentially the most violent criminals, The Middle Sq. reported. She has additionally greater than as soon as referred to as for abolishing ICE altogether.
The Senate border invoice would have expanded present failed insurance policies, critics declare, codify mass migration and nullify state sovereignty.
Harris additionally repeated a declare that former President Donald Trump “got on the phone, called up some folks in Congress, and said, ‘kill the bill.’ And you know why? Because he’d prefer to run on a problem instead of fixing a problem.”
The invoice failed as a result of many Senate Democrats didn’t assist it and their campaigns started distancing themselves from Biden-Harris border insurance policies, which the vast majority of Individuals oppose, in keeping with quite a few polls.
U.S. Home Speaker Mike Johnson, R-LA, additionally stated it was lifeless on arrival. He referred to as on the Senate to go what he, and others say, is the strongest border safety invoice, HR 2, which the Senate refused to contemplate.
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When requested about being appointed “to address the root causes of migration,” she didn’t cite one instance of a root trigger or what she did to deal with it, repair it or treatment it.
Nor did she tackle the document greater than 12.5 million overseas nationals who illegally entered the nation beneath her watch, together with two million who evaded seize. They whole greater than the person populations of 45 states. If unlawful border crossers have been a state, they’d be the sixth most populous state forward of Illinois, The Middle Sq. reported.
Nor did she tackle the document variety of identified or suspected terrorists who’ve been apprehended making an attempt to enter the U.S., greater than 1,700 since fiscal 2021, the best quantity in U.S. historical past.
When requested about her flip-flopping on points like constructing a border wall, she repeated the declare that “her values haven’t changed.” That is after The Middle Sq. and different information retailers reality checked her opposition to frame wall development and funding for years.
At no level throughout the debate did she define her plan for border safety, deportation of violent criminals, or categorical condolences to Individuals whose households have been murdered and raped by legal overseas nationals who have been launched into the nation beneath her watch. Biden-Harris parole applications have been straight linked to violent criminals who illegally entered and remained within the nation who then went on to commit violent crimes towards Individuals, The Middle Sq. has reported.
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Earlier this 12 months when endorsing Trump for president, the brother of Maryland resident Rachel Morin, who was raped and murdered by a Venezuelan illegally within the nation, stated, “My sister’s loss of life was preventable. The monster arrested for killing Rachel entered the US unlawfully after killing a lady in El Salvador. Joe Biden and his designated ‘border czar’ Kamala Harris opened our borders to him and others like him, empowering them to victimize the harmless. But to this present day, now we have not heard from Joe Biden or Kamala Harris. They by no means apologized.
“When Rachel was killed, President Trump called my family to offer his condolences. He wanted to meet with us. He cared. That is leadership. And we need real leadership back in the White House.”
Houston angel mother mom Alexis Nungaray, who additionally endorsed Trump, stated she by no means heard from Harris even after she got here to a Houston fundraiser after her daughter was strangled to loss of life by two Venezuelan males illegally within the nation. They have been launched into the nation due to Biden-Harris insurance policies, she stated, which needed to change.
“We’re losing very innocent people to heinous crimes that shouldn’t be happening in the first place.”
Syndicated with permission from The Middle Sq..
