Former President Donald Trump recently criticized Vice President Kamala Harris for her visit to the U.S.-Mexico border, pointing out that it occurred after “four straight years of obliterating” the United States border. Speaking at an event in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin on Saturday, Trump referenced Harris’s recent visit near the border in Douglas, Arizona on Friday. During a speech from Arizona, Harris placed blame on Trump for doing “nothing to fix” the broken immigration system in the U.S.
Trump stated, “Last night, after four straight years of obliterating our border, I watched this show that she put on.” He went on to say that it was the most incompetent border anywhere in the world, and that Kamala Harris traveled to a site where he had put up border wall as her backdrop. Trump criticized Harris for what he described as “one of the most heinous crimes ever committed by any administration in American history,” referring to the release of millions of people through the U.S. border, making the nation unsafe.
News outlets have attempted to portray Harris as taking a tough approach to the border issue; however, according to Breitbart’s Neil Munro, Harris recently released an economic plan that assumes a loose border inflow of low-wage migrant workers, government-aided migrant consumers, and room-sharing migrant renters. Included in Harris’s 2024 campaign promises are pledges to provide illegal aliens with amnesty and to increase the flow of migrants into the U.S.
Breitbart News’ John Binder reported that during a recent interview with MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle, Harris was asked what her administration would do for communities that had “taken in many” migrants. In response, she referenced bipartisan legislation from Senators James Lankford (R-OK), Chris Murphy (D-CT), and Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) that would increase immigration levels in the U.S., “codify the administration’s parole pipeline for migrants,” and “expedite work permits” for illegal migrants coming to the southern border.
A report released by the House Homeland Security Committee found that under the Biden-Harris administration, nearly eight million migrants had been welcomed in the U.S. The report also found that over 85 percent of migrants who had arrived at the southern border were being released into the U.S.