A lie from the ‘border czar’
Immigration along with the economy and inflation continue to be major political issues in the 2024 presidential elections. Half a dozen House Democrats on Thursday, July 25, joined their Republican colleagues in passing a resolution that condemns Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, for her failure as “border czar” to secure the U.S. southern border.
President Biden hand-picked Kamala Harris to lead on the issue of immigration back in March 2022. The president personally on March 24, 2021, said “The vice president has agreed to lead our diplomatic effort to work with these nations, to accept returnees and to enhance immigration enforcement at the border.”
In accepting the task, Harris made her role more specific saying: “I look forward to engaging in diplomacy with government, with the private sector and with civil society.”
Harris goes on further to say, “We will collaborate with Mexico and other countries throughout the Western Hemisphere.”
Now fast forward three months to June 2021 when Lester Holt, reporter for NBC News, interviews Harris in Guatemala and asks her perhaps the first pointed and tough question she has received in a long time and catches her in a lie. Holt simply asks her, “Do you have any plans to visit the border?”
This direct question seems to startle the vice president, and she blurts out, “We’ve been to the border and Holt simply replies, “You haven’t been to the border.” Harris then replies, “And I haven’t been to Europe.”
The fact is Holt was correct and the vice president had not been to the southern border three months after President Biden asked her to be the “border czar” where millions of illegal aliens were pouring across the border into the USA.
Larry O’Neill
Palatine