Vice President Kamala Harris just made her first trip to the U.S.-Mexico border since taking office, and, well, let’s just say it did not go smoothly. After years of staying mostly hands-off on the border issue, Harris finally made a brief stop in Douglas, Arizona, where she gave a speech that put the blame squarely on former president Donald Trump.
At the rally, Harris slammed Trump’s immigration policies, saying, “He made the challenges at the border worse, and he is still fanning the flames of fear and division.”
She continued to criticize his legacy, while promising that as president (yep, she’s already looking ahead to 2024), she’ll tighten up border security, reduce illegal crossings, and make sure deportations happen for those not seeking asylum through legal means. She even dropped the phrase “mass amnesty” to signal a more lenient approach, which is pretty much the opposite of what Trump stands for.
But before you could say “border czar,” the backlash started rolling in. The National Border Patrol Council (NBPC), the union representing Border Patrol agents, did not hold back on Harris. They slammed the vice president for ignoring the border crisis for most of her time in office. And honestly? They weren’t wrong—this was her first border visit since 2021, despite being tapped by President Biden to handle the situation over three years ago.
“Vice President Harris has ignored the border problem she created for over three years,” the NBPC said in a fiery statement. “She goes down there for 20 minutes for a photo op and decides to repeat some of the things the NBPC has said before. But again, where has she been the last 3 1/2 years?”
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