The Harris border scam

 Rich Lowry:

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She (Kamala Harris) tries to sound like she’s always wanted to be a border hawk — if only she’d been able to get her way.

“The first bill we proposed to Congress was to fix our broken immigration system,” she said on 60 Minutes a week or so ago, “knowing that if you want to actually fix it, we need Congress to act. It was not taken up.”

Every single word of this, with the possible exception of the prepositions, is misleading. The proposal was a massive amnesty bill. It was intended “to fix” the system only if you believe the real problem is that illegal immigrants in the United States haven’t yet been legalized. The bill had no meaningful border provisions, not even more Border Patrol agents.

By complaining that the legislation wasn’t taken up, Harris clearly wanted to create the impression that GOP obstruction stymied the bill. Yet Democrats had unified control of Congress at the time and chose to ignore the proposal because everyone understood it was an absurd nonstarter.

For all that Harris insists that “from Day One, literally, we have been offering solutions,” the fact of the matter is that there was no border crisis to solve on Day One — because the Biden administration hadn’t unraveled the Trump policies yet.
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A huge majority of real citizens opposed what Harris tried to implement.  She and Biden deliberately opened the border because they wanted to import what they saw as potential Democrat voters.  It was a wildly unpopular move.