Kamala Harris Doubles Down On Facilitating Biden’s Border Invasion If Elected

Shawn Fleetwood reporting for The Federalist 

During a Univision town hall on Thursday, Vice President Kamala Harris doubled down on furthering the ongoing invasion at the U.S. southern border if elected president this November.

The moment came when a prospective voter questioned Harris about what she would do to support noncitizens who have resided in the United States “for years.” The Democrat nominee bragged about how “the first” piece of legislation the Biden-Harris administration sent to Congress was a bill that, among many things, sought to provide amnesty to illegal immigrants within the country.

Referred to by the White House as the U.S. Citizenship Act, the measure specifically would have allowed foreign nationals residing in the United States prior to Jan. 1, 2021, “to apply for temporary legal status, with the ability to apply for green cards after five years if they pass criminal and national security background checks and pay their taxes.” After a three-year waiting period, “all green card holders who pass additional background checks and demonstrate knowledge of English and U.S. civics can apply to become citizen.”

But Harris didn’t stop there. She went on to lament the death of a “border security bill” introduced by bipartisan members of Congress earlier this year, a bill that would have enshrined the existing invasion at the U.S.-Mexico border into law.

“A bipartisan group of members of Congress, including one of the most conservative members of the United States Senate, came together with one of the strongest border security bills we’ve had in decades,” Harris claimed. “And Donald Trump found out about that bill, realized it would be a solution, and told them not to put it on the floor for a vote because he would prefer to run on a problem instead of fixing a problem.”

As The Federalist has repeatedly noted, the vice president’s claim that the bill would have stopped the influx of illegal immigration across the southern border is a lie. In fact, the legislation specifically guaranteed thousands of illegal aliens would be allowed into the United States via the border every day,

As David Harsanyi wrote in these pages, that amounts to (at least) “nearly 2 million entries per year.”

When responding to a separate question later in the town hall, Harris reaffirmed her support for granting the millions of illegal immigrants in the United States amnesty, saying we must “do the work of focusing on what we must do to have an orderly and humane pathway to earn citizenship” for noncitizens.

As vice president and “border czar,” Harris has presided over what is arguably the worst illegal immigration crisis in modern U.S. history. According to an October 2023 report by the Washington Examiner, an estimated 10 million illegal aliens have unlawfully entered the United States since Biden and Harris took office in January 2021.

Most recently, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed in a letter to Congress that more than 647,000 illegal immigrants convicted or suspected of sexual assault, homicide, and other heinous crimes are roaming free in the United States. That communique came days after retired Chief Border Patrol Agent Aaron Heitke claimed in testimony before Congress that Biden-Harris administration officials told him he “could not release any names or information” to the American public on the increase of illegal aliens with “significant ties to terrorism” who were apprehended at the southern border.

Heitke contended the administration’s purpose in withholding such information was to “convince the public there was no threat at the border.”