Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy on Monday pointedly asked White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre how much Vice President Kamala Harris thinks President Joe Biden has mishandled the border crisis.
Doocy pressed Jean-Pierre about Harris' campaign. promise Increase the number of Border Patrol agents to mitigate the influx of migrants illegally entering the U.S. The vice president, who was appointed by President Joe Biden in March 2021 to address the “root causes” of migration in Mexico and Northern Triangle countries, has shifted his position on illegal immigration throughout his time in the administration and as a U.S. senator.
“How long have you all known that Vice President Kamala Harris thinks President Biden's border security is not working?” Doocy asked, before Jean-Pierre asked him to repeat the question. “She's now committed to hiring thousands more border patrol agents under President Biden's administration than we currently have.”
Jean-Pierre accused Doocy of interpreting Harris' beliefs and accused Republican lawmakers and Republican candidate Donald Trump of “getting in the way” of sending more agents to the US-Mexico border.
“The president wants more Border Patrol agents,” Jean-Pierre said. “You know who's in the way? Republicans in Congress. They're in the way. You know who else is in the way? Former president Donald Trump. He's in the way. So there's no light here. You don't understand the question because there's no light. And the president believes that, and he's been working to get that done.”
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Jean-Pierre was referring to the Emergency National Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, which aims to allocate funding for additional Border Patrol agents and immigration judges to speed up immigration proceedings. legislation It also intended to force the deportation of aliens entering the United States illegally if the number of arrivals exceeded 5,000 per day on a weekly average. (Related article: “How could this happen?”: Doocy slams KJP for lack of communication with border authorities)
Senate Republicans blocked the bill from moving forward on a 49-50 vote on Feb. 7, with House Speaker Mike Johnson warning that the bill would “die as soon as it arrives” in the House.
The Harris campaign has released a number of ads arguing that the vice president intends to strengthen border security and defuse the crisis. 1 ad In a statement released in July, Harris argued she supported increasing the number of Border Patrol agents, introducing new technology to stop drugs from entering the US, and spending more on anti-human trafficking efforts.
Rodney Scott, a former Border Patrol chief who ran the Border Patrol while Harris served as “border secretary,” told the Daily Caller News Foundation on August 8 that the vice president had never spoken to him. (RELATED: Kamala Harris claims border is 'secure')
Scott also told the DCNF that the Biden-Harris administration has “diverted millions of dollars” from enforcement activities to allow more illegal immigrants into the United States, accusing the administration of diverting taxpayer funds to NGOs to fly more illegal immigrants “wherever they want to go” instead of prioritizing enforcement.
NumbersUSA, a group that advocates for more “smart immigration,” has called Harris F-rating This is because he supported a number of bills that were said to weaken border security.
As a senator, Harris in 2018 likened Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to the Ku Klux Klan and suggested the agency should be abolished. Expressed I support giving health insurance to illegal immigrants in 2020.
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