{"id":12652,"date":"2024-09-11T17:22:37","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T17:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=12652"},"modified":"2024-09-11T17:57:08","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T17:57:08","slug":"fact-check-in-presidential-debate-harris-deflects-on-border-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=12652","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: In Presidential Debate, Harris Deflects on Border Record"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/fact-check-in-presidential-debate-harris-deflects-on-border-record\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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During the presidential debate on Tuesday night, Vice President Kamala Harris deflected when answering questions on the ongoing border crisis.<\/p>\n

When asked \u201cwhy did the administration wait until six months before the election to act\u201d on the border crisis, and if she would have done anything differently from President Joe Biden, Harris didn\u2019t answer the question. She deflected by repeating the claim she\u2019s previously made that she prosecuted transnational criminal organizations when she was the attorney general of California from 2011 to 2017.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’m the only person on this stage who has prosecuted transnational criminal organizations for the trafficking of guns drugs and human beings,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

She also repeated a claim that she would sign a U.S. Senate border bill that went nowhere in the Democratic controlled Senate.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of the most conservative members of the United States Senate came up with the border security bill which I supported,\u201d she said. \u201cThat 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

While a U.S. senator, Harris opposed increasing funding to hire thousands of new Border Patrol and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and advocated for eliminating ICE detention facilities, which house the most violent criminals, The Center Square reported. She has also more than once called for abolishing<\/a> ICE altogether.<\/p>\n

The Senate border bill would have expanded<\/a> current failed policies, critics claim, codify mass migration and nullify state sovereignty.<\/p>\n

Harris also repeated a claim that former President Donald Trump \u201cgot on the phone, called up some folks in Congress, and said, \u2018kill the bill.\u2019 And you know why? Because he’d prefer to run on a problem instead of fixing a problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

The bill failed because many Senate Democrats didn\u2019t support it and their campaigns began distancing themselves<\/a> from Biden-Harris border policies, which the majority of Americans oppose, according to numerous polls.<\/p>\n

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-LA, also said it was dead on arrival. He called on the Senate to pass what he, and others say, is the strongest border security bill, HR 2, which the Senate refused to consider.<\/p>\n

When asked about being appointed \u201cto address the root causes of migration,\u201d she did not cite one example of a root cause or what she did to address it, fix it or remedy it.<\/p>\n

Nor did she address the record more than 12.5 million foreign nationals who illegally entered the country under her watch, including two million who evaded capture. They total more than the individual populations of 45 states. If illegal border crossers were a state, they\u2019d be the sixth most populous state ahead of Illinois, The Center Square reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Nor did she address the record number of known or suspected terrorists<\/a> who\u2019ve been apprehended attempting to enter the U.S., more than 1,700 since fiscal 2021, the greatest number in U.S. history.<\/p>\n

When asked about her flip-flopping on issues like building a border wall, she repeated the claim that \u201cher values haven\u2019t changed.\u201d This is after The Center Square and other news outlets fact checked<\/a> her opposition to border wall construction and funding for years.<\/p>\n

At no point during the debate did she outline her plan for border security, deportation of violent criminals, or express condolences to Americans whose families have been murdered and raped by criminal foreign nationals who were released into the country under her watch. Biden-Harris parole programs have been directly linked to violent criminals who illegally entered and remained in the country who then went on to commit violent crimes against Americans, The Center Square has reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year when endorsing Trump for president, the brother of Maryland resident Rachel Morin, who was raped and murdered by a Venezuelan illegally in the country, said, \u201cMy sister’s death was preventable. The monster arrested for killing Rachel entered the US unlawfully after killing a woman in El Salvador. Joe Biden and his designated \u2018border czar\u2019 Kamala Harris opened our borders to him and others like him, empowering them to victimize the innocent. Yet to this day, we have not heard from Joe Biden or Kamala Harris. They never apologized.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Houston angel mom mother Alexis Nungaray, who also endorsed Trump, said she never heard from Harris even after she came to a Houston fundraiser after her daughter was strangled to death by two Venezuelan men illegally in the country. They were released into the country because of Biden-Harris policies, she said, which had to change.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’re losing very innocent people to heinous crimes that shouldn’t be happening in the first place.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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