Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban on Friday used the X platform to attack former college swimmer and conservative activist Riley Gaines, 24, over criticism of Vice President Kamala Harris' handling of the southern border. I replied.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Friday released data to lawmakers revealing that tens of thousands of illegal immigrants with convictions for sex crimes and murder have crossed the border into the United States under the Biden-Harris administration. It was announced on . These include 13,099 people convicted of murder and 15,811 people convicted of sexual assault.
Cubans, who have strongly supported Harris, Joe Biden in 2020 and Hillary Clinton in 2016, have defended the vice president's record on the border. In a recent interview with CNBC, Cuban said he even believes the actions he has taken to reduce the flow of illegal immigrants across the southern border are “actually having an effect.”
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Gaines accused Cubans of praising the vice president. Post to X Friday.
“While there may be different criteria for what counts as a 'good job,' over 15,000 rapists, over 13,000 murderers, and 320,000 missing children… I don't think illegal immigration of people fits that criteria,” Outkick host Gaines said.gains for girls” the podcaster wrote.
Gaines was referring to the 320,000 missing children. separate report A report released by the Department of Homeland Security on August 21 revealed that the Biden-Harris administration is unable to track the number of migrant children who cross the border without their parents.
Former college swimmer Riley Gaines (left) testifies during a hearing of the House Oversight Subcommittee on Health and Financial Services at the Capitol on December 5, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Cuba had its own reaction to Gaines ×post Only 90 minutes later. Mr. Cuban acknowledged that the current administration “has taken too long to fix the border.” But he later criticized Trump's pledge to carry out the largest mass deportation in U.S. history if elected.
“As I have said many times, it has taken too long to fix the border. The good news is that the latest number of border crossings is lower than on January 21st, hovering near 1,500 people per day. “This is what we do,” he wrote, along with screenshots of two articles featuring statistical reductions. By illegally crossing the border.
“And the vice president has made it clear that he will sign a bipartisan border bill. It's a fair argument to criticize them for waiting too long, but they're now succeeding. And that brings us to the question of deportation.''Republican candidates say they're going to deport the 21 million people who are here illegally, but how they're going to do it. Not made clear. ”
Trump's meal at the Alabama-Georgia football game contained about 800 calories from McDonald's alone.
Mr. Cuban was referring to the border bill that failed to pass Congress in May even though all but one Republican senator and six Democrats voted to block it.
Democrats said the bill aims to reduce border crossings, raise standards for asylum status for immigrants, and give authorities more power to quickly expel immigrants who don't meet those standards. The president would be given the power to close the border if immigration levels exceed a certain threshold. However, earlier drafts included border provisions regarding funding to Ukraine and Israel, raising concerns about the bill.
Mr. Gaines responded to Ms. Cuban's defense, praising Ms. Harris, saying: Another X post On Friday night, he discredited the statistics presented by Cuba and criticized the border bill.
“They are transporting illegal immigrants into the heartland of America, often in places unknown to us,” Gaines wrote. “The bipartisan border bill is a Trojan horse. When it was first voted on, it included funding for Ukraine.” , she's been advocating for securing the border. Why won't the White House act now for three and a half years?”
Dallas Mavericks minority owner Mark Cuban walked off the court after the Mavericks' loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder at American Airlines Center. (Jerome Miron/USA Today Sports)
Gaines also criticized Cuban for not mentioning the 320,000 missing children statistic mentioned in his original post.
As of this article's publication, Mr. Cuban had not responded to Mr. Gaines again.
The Cuban government's defense of Harris and the Democratic Party has stepped up in recent weeks. He has given several interviews in support of the vice president in the upcoming election, making remarks that may raise eyebrows among conservative voters. Mr. Cuban has suggested that Mr. Trump is a “socialist” and even said in a recent CNBC interview that he believes the mainstream media is “leaning to the right.”
Earlier this year, when Biden was still the presumptive Democratic nominee, Cuban went so far as to say he would vote for Biden over Trump, even if Biden were to “perform his last rites.”
“If they were having his last wake and it was him versus Trump and the last rites were being performed, I would still vote for Joe Biden,” Cuban said. He told Bloomberg News in May.
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But Cuban said he supported Trump when he first ran for office in 2015.
“In 2015, I thought, 'He's great. He's not your typical Stepford candidate. I thought that was a positive thing,'” Cuban said in an Aug. 7 interview with X. -Told Ramaswami.
Gaines has been a champion of Trump this election cycle. Gaines also spoke at Trump's rally in Glendale, Arizona, on Aug. 23. Gaines then claimed she was voting for Trump “because I'm a woman.”
“They don't believe in school choice, they don't believe in parental rights and child protection. They don't believe in freedom other than the freedom to have an abortion or the freedom to chemically or surgically castrate a child,” she said. spoke.
“One ticket you have is one in which you pledged to take decisive action to know what women are and protect their gender-based rights, and the other ticket is to pledge that men can also become pregnant.” “We think of tampons as something that belongs in the men's room.”
Riley Gaines and Mark Cuban (Imagination)
Harris will make a rare trip to the southern border in Arizona to soften former President Trump's outspoken criticism on the issue and reiterate her call for bipartisan border legislation. Conservatives were unfazed by the visit.
“Border czar Kamala Harris has had nearly four years to protect America, and she has failed,” RJ Howman, director of the National Immigration Enforcement Center (NICE), told Fox News Digital in response to the data. . “She has tens of thousands of murderers and rapists roaming free. She puts criminals first and the safety and security of you and your family last.”
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