A record of abject failure that cost the livelihoods – and lives – of countless Americans
Vice President Kamala Harris has played a vital role in what is unquestionably the worst border crisis in American history. Over the past four years of the Biden-Harris administration, millions of “undocumented” illegal aliens have poured over the southern border, and this disaster promises to grow much larger if Harris is able to pull out a win over former President Donald Trump in November’s election.
Although numbers vary, it is estimated there could be upward of 10 million illegal aliens who have made their way across the border since January 2021. That crisis, in turn, has precipitated a flood of criminal activities. Human smuggling and trafficking, sex trafficking, drug trafficking and gun running are rampant.
Harris officially was given the task of stemming the flow of migrants at the southern border in March 2021, and according to a report from NBC News, Harris’ role was to focus on both curbing migrants crossing the border, and implementing long–term strategies to “address the root causes of migration.” She was quickly dubbed, and universally acknowledged, as America’s “border czar,” a title she now denies.
Harris was tasked to work closely with Secretary of State Antony Blinken and other Cabinet members on the catastrophe, triggered by the Biden-Harris decision to trash all of President Trump’s largely successful border-security efforts. It wasn’t long before illegal crossings reached truly epic levels.
Undocumented migrant numbers explode while Harris fumbles the job in her first year
NBC News further reported crossings at the southern border had hit a 21–year high, with over 188,000 border crossers reported just in June of 2021. Approximately 105,000 were sent back to Mexico using a Trump-era Centers for Disease Control and Prevention authority called Title 42. Around 8% of undocumented migrants crossing into the U.S. in March 2021 had been children, a number that increased in June. But children were not subject to expulsions under Title 42, and were instead sheltered within the U.S., and paired with a sponsor.
Harris was so bad at her job of overseeing the border, even CNN had to report honestly on her performance during her first international trip as vice president to Mexico and Guatemala. Harris was yet to visit the southern border. CNN analyst Maeve Reston wrote that Harris’ trip was overshadowed by her previous insistence that she does not run the southern border, and that she was only tasked to focus on the conditions pushing Central American migrants to the U.S. border.
“Biden cranked up the heat on Harris by handing her a portfolio of immigration issues that is the political equivalent of dynamite at a time when her critics are parsing her every move, often vilifying her in the same way they made Nancy Pelosi and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez their boogeymen in prior election cycles,” Reston wrote.
Meanwhile, Harris told NBC’s Lester Holt the administration had “already seen success at the border,” but balked when Holt stated Harris had not even been to the border, despite her insistence that she had.
“And I haven’t been to Europe. I mean, I don’t understand the point that you’re making. I’m not discounting the importance of the border,” Harris told Holt while nervously giggling her way through her answer.
At the end of June 2021, NPR reported that Harris finally visited El Paso, Texas, which notably is thousands of miles from where the actual border crisis exists. During her visit, instead of coming up with any solutions to solve the issue, Harris instead retreated into humanitarian open-border rhetoric, using undocumented children she met at an El Paso detention center to pull viewers’ heartstrings.
“This issue cannot be reduced to a political issue. We’re talking about children. We’re talking about families. We’re talking about suffering,” Harris said. “Our approach has to be thoughtful and effective.”