Vice President Kamala Harris is campaigning on a promise to tighten border restrictions as Republicans hammer her over the Biden-Harris administration’s record on immigration.
Harris first visited the US-Mexico border as a Democratic presidential candidate in late September embraced President Biden’s recent crackdown on asylum seekers, which led to an almost immediate and dramatic drop in the number of border crossings. Harris said she would go even further.
Immigration problems are nothing new, but there were record numbers of undocumented immigrants crossing the border during the first three years of the Biden-Harris administration after pandemic-era immigration policies and other restrictions were relaxed.
“Solutions are obvious. And we have literally offered solutions from day one,” Harris said.
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She pointed to the recent decline in illegal immigration: Border crossings collapsed This year, illegal crossings at the southern border reached the lowest point of President Biden’s administration in September, according to internal Department of Homeland Security statistics obtained by CBS News.
Earlier this year, twofold Legislation aimed at overhauling the immigration system failed in Congress after Trump urged Republicans to oppose it.
“We need Congress to take action to actually solve the problem,” Harris said.
As vice president, Harris’ responsibilities on immigration have often been mischaracterized by her political opponents. Mr. Biden in 2021 Harris asked leading the administration’s diplomatic efforts to address the “root causes” of migration from Central America’s Northern Triangle – Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
Trump has wrongly called Harris the administration’s “border czar.”
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