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Today Kamala Harris visited the border in Arizona and proposed a tougher plan to limit illegal immigration. But of course she’s also the current Vice President in the administration with one of if not the worst immigration records in US history. She is essentially promising that, if elected, she will clean up her own mess. This really ought to be embarrassing to all involved but she seems to be getting the serious headlines she wanted out of it.
Harris’s proposed executive action would build on President Joe Biden’s current policy of essentially closing the U.S. asylum system unless illegal border crossings stay below 1,500 daily crossings for a week. Harris would lower that threshold and extend the period it must be met, though exact figures were not immediately available.
The action might have a limited practical impact, at least in the short term, but the proposal is designed to send a message that Harris is taking a more assertive immigration posture than the administration in which she serves, and that she is not ceding the issue to Donald Trump, who consistently scores higher marks among voters on border security and immigration.
This was a photo op and a nakedly political attempt to deceive voters.
Vice President Harris walked along the U.S. border with Mexico on Friday alongside a stretch of border wall built during the Obama administration, talking with border officials about their work.
It was a photo op meant to illustrate that she supports border security — one of the biggest concerns voters have about Harris — and to try to defang criticism from her Republican opponent, former President Donald Trump.
