Vice President Kamala Harris insists the US southern border is secure, but in all reality the number of illegal migrants are getting ready to surpass a staggering 2 million this month.
In an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, Harris acknowledged the immigration system still needs to be fixed, before placing the blame on the Trump administration for the border surge that has happened since President Biden took office.
“The border is secure, but we also have a broken immigration system, in particular, over the last four years before we came in, and it needs to be fixed,” Harris told host Chuck Todd.
The VP doubled down when Todd questioned her claim of border security, given the hefty streams of illegal migrants still flooding into the country every month.
“We’re going to have 2 million people cross this border for the first time ever. You’re confident this border’s secure?” Todd asked.
“We have a secure border in that that is a priority for any nation, including ours and our administration,” Harris insisted. “But there are still a lot of problems that we are trying to fix given the deterioration that happened over the last four years.
“We also have to put into place a law and a plan for a pathway for citizenship for the millions of people who are here and are prepared to do what is legally required to gain citizenship.”
Harris once again tried to shift the blame anywhere, but on the Biden administration, “We don’t have that in place because people are playing politics in a state like this and in Congress. By the way, you want to talk about bipartisanship on an issue that at one time was a bipartisan issue both in terms of Republican senators and even presidents.”
Migrant arrest numbers have almost doubled under the Biden administration and have already exceeded last year’s record.
So far this fiscal year, Border Patrol agents have reported more than 1.94 million encounters at the border, which is up from the 1.73 million encounters in all of 2021 and just over 458,000 in 2020.
Meanwhile, 748 migrants have died attempting to cross into the US this fiscal year. The grim new record is up from the 557 deaths recorded in 2021.
Lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle have blamed the Biden administration’s policies for the surge in border-crossers since the president took office in January 2021.
Biden had promised during the 2020 election campaign to reverse Trump’s more restrictive and controversial policies.
This lying whore is a monument to Racism, rather than finding a compitent person to be VP, Our comander and idiot chose a woman of color, sadly he chose the stupidest ass he could find, I’ve met more qualified woman walking down the dirty streets of Kensington (Phila) than this boob. It shows what you get when racism is all you use to pick. What a moron, even more ridiculous than her idiot president, maybe, their both so stupid and corrupt.
They are both stupid, corrupt , lying , POS’s who want take credit for anything good even though they had nothing to with but always want to blame someone else for all the inept disastrous decisions they make – they care both morons and she is worse then him !
Fool woman, about all I can say that is allowed!