Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris dodged some of the sharpest immigration-related questions posed by ABC News moderators during Tuesday night's presidential debate.
“Why did the administration wait until six months before the election to act?” the ABC presenter asked. [against the border inflow]Would you have done anything differently with the president? [Joe] What does Biden think about this?
Harris responded:
So I am the only person who has prosecuted an international criminal organization for gun and drug trafficking. The United States Congress, including some of the most conservative members of the United States Congress, put together a border security bill that I supported that would have added 1,500 additional Border Patrol agents to assist those currently working at the border. This bill would have helped stop the flow of fentanyl into the United States. I know that many families watching this show tonight have been personally affected by the surge in fentanyl in our country.
Since January 2021, Harris has been helping Biden's top aides attract at least 10 million wealth transfer workers, blue-collar workers and white-collar workers from poor countries to work in American workplaces, communities, schools and hospitals.
In December 2023, as the 2024 election accelerated, Biden surrogates raced to Mexico to urge the Mexican president to curb migration.
“This has been brought to the president's attention and he has deployed the secretary of Homeland Security,” DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said on Friday. [of State Antony] Blinken and I are heading to Mexico. [Mexican] Following President Lopez Obrador's instructions, we took action… and the numbers dropped sharply in January.”
Harris was not involved in the negotiations with Mexico.
The December 2023 meeting comes two and a half years after their March 2021 meeting, in which Harris declined to take a leading role on immigration policy.
