Lying right to your face. And nobody to call them on it in the MSM
On the border, Kamala Harris has the weakest record imaginable, and with an entirely straight face, she is claiming that it is in fact the strongest.
www.washingtonexaminer.com
KAMALA HARRIS’S BORDER CHUTZPAH. Vice President Kamala Harris has two big jobs in her young presidential campaign. The first is to run away from many of the positions she held when she first ran for president in 2019. The second is to run away from much of her record as vice president.
The issue of border security is a challenge for Harris on both fronts. Now, in a stunning display of chutzpah or gaslighting or whatever you want to call it, Harris is attempting to rewrite the history of her position on the border both as a presidential candidate and as vice president.
Harris ran for the Democratic nomination for president between January and December 2019. Mired in sixth place, she dropped out of the race on Dec. 3, 2019, meaning she never made it to the Iowa caucuses or any other contest in which Democrats voted for a candidate. Her biggest moment was a debate in which she accused rival Joe Biden of racism. After that, it was downhill all the way.
In that campaign, Harris favored decriminalizing illegal border crossings. She also favored taxpayer-funded healthcare for illegal immigrants. She favored sanctuary cities. She would have expanded the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and given “deportation relief” to millions of people in the United States illegally. At the same time, she opposed virtually everything then-President Donald Trump did to secure the border, from strengthening physical barriers on the border to the “Remain in Mexico” program to detention and expulsion of illegal border crossers.
In other words, Harris proposed doing what the Biden administration would later do, which is increase the incentives — the magnet — for people to cross illegally into the U.S. while tying the hands of law enforcement to stop, or at least greatly decrease, the flow of illegal crossers.
Had Harris miraculously won the White House in 2020, she would have set off the same border crisis that Biden did, and maybe worse. So when Biden actually did set off the crisis, he had Harris’s full support. When Biden put her in charge of dealing with the “root causes” of the crisis he had caused, he, she, and everyone else understood that it was a way of appearing to deal with the problem without dealing with the problem. And that is precisely what Harris did. She took a few perfunctory actions, and things got worse.
You know what happened. More than 10 million illegal crossers came into the U.S., a number that is probably higher when so-called gotaways are counted — that is, those who entered the country while evading contact with the Border Patrol. The flood of illegal crossers has put enormous burdens on cities across the country struggling to house and support immigrants. Harris turned the border problem into a national crisis. And now she owns it.
Here’s the chutzpah part. Hitting the campaign trail, with an adoring press in tow, Harris is now claiming that she is much, much tougher on border security than Trump. “Donald Trump … has been talking a big game about securing our border, but he does not walk the walk,” Harris said at her first rally in Atlanta. “I will proudly put my record against his any day of the week, including, for example, on the issue of immigration.”
What Harris said was extravagantly, flamboyantly, wildly untrue. And here is a way to check: Trump has actually been president of the United States. You can check his record against Harris’s. He was much, much, much tougher on border security than Harris.