Former President Donald J. Trump‘s running mate, Senator J.D. Vance, took Vice President Kamala Harris to task for the Biden-Harris government’s mishandling of the U.S. southern border crisis on a visit to Cochise County, Arizona, on Thursday. Vance expressed disbelief at the scale of the crisis, with Joe Biden having assigned Harris to tackle its “root causes” in 2021, emphasizing how hard it is to understand the severity of the situation without seeing it firsthand.
“Kamala Harris came into office making promises, and she kept those promises to open the American southern border,” Vance said.
“They stopped deportations on day one; they stopped construction of the border wall on day one. We see the border wall sitting here, ready to be completed behind us, and that can’t happen because of Kamala Harris‘s administration,” he continued.
“They reinstated ‘catch and release’ and they stopped ‘Remain in Mexico,’ so all these asylum claimants who come to our border, they can now get released into our country because they’re not forced to stay in Mexico while we adjudicate their asyum claims,” Vance said.
These policies, the Senator stressed, “cause real human beings to suffer,” citing his own childhood experience of his mother, a recovering drug addict, almost losing her life to “poison” trafficked across the porous frontier with Mexico.
It is true that Harris opposes the border wall, having dismissed it as a “vanity project,” and she has expressed little interest in deporting illegal aliens, instead stressing the supposed importance of a “pathway to citizenship” that would only encourage more illegal immigration.
She also compared U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to the KKK as a hyper-liberal U.S. Senator.
