Kamala Harris Refuses to Directly Answer Question on Her Border Crisis

After presiding over the worst border crisis in American history, Border Czar Kamala Harris isn’t to keep on answering question on it.

Harris and Tim Walz appear to be (kinda sort of) reversing their “basement campaign” strategy in avoiding the media, indicating that their internal polling is much worse than the national polls suggest.

As the Daily Mail reported:

The Democratic nominee was put in the hot seat when host Bill Whitaker asked her why it took three-and-a-half years for the Biden administration to bring in tougher restrictions to fix the immigration crisis.

Harris dodged the question as Whitaker kept pressing on whether she regretted letting border crossings 'quadruple' during her first three years in the White House.

“The first bill we proposed to Congress was to fix our broken immigration system, knowing that if you want to actually fix it, we need Congress to act,” Harris responded flatly. “It was not taken up.”

She pointed to the bipartisan border deal reached in the Senate before slamming her rival Donald Trump for working to kill the bill. It is a talking point she frequently brings up on the campaign trail. But Whitaker did not go for it.

Whitaker pointed out ‘there was an historic flood of undocumented immigrants coming across the border the first three years of your administration. As a matter of fact, arrivals quadrupled from the last year of President Trump. Was it a mistake to loosen the immigration policies as much as you did?’

“It's a longstanding problem,” Harris pushed back. “And solutions are at hand. And from day one, literally, we have been offering solutions.”

Watch below:

In fiscal year 2021 there were 1.73 million encounters at the border with illegals. In 2022 the figure was 2.4 million - 2.5 million in 2023, and 2.033 million so far this year. Since taking office, Biden has set a record for the number of illegals that have crossed the border every single consecutive year, though it’s looking like 2024 could be an exception, as the fiscal year has ended (September was the last month of the 2024 fiscal year, and the September data isn’t available yet). 

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