Former President Donald Trump mocked Kamala Harris’ deliberate go to to the border — simply her second as vice chairman — arguing she’s had three years to resolve the unlawful migrant disaster.
Harris is predicted to journey to Douglas, Ariz., on Friday and is planning to make a cease on the border to speak about growing safety.
“Why didn’t she repair it nearly 4 years in the past? She’s received no plans, received no expertise, received no capacity to do it,” the previous president stated Thursday throughout a press convention at Trump Tower.
The Arizona cease would be the first time Harris has seen the border because the Democratic presidential nominee.
She went to the border as vice chairman in 2021 amid stress for her to see firsthand the processing facilities.
“She’s going there tomorrow, after nearly 4 years, she’s going there tomorrow to attempt to present you what a fantastic job she did,” Trump argued in his remarks.
Harris has campaigned on supporting the killed bipartisan border invoice that might have shut down the border if unlawful border crossings topped 2,500 per week — however nonetheless would have allowed in about 1.8 million migrants per 12 months.
“Donald Trump received phrase of the invoice, realized it was going to repair an issue he wished to run on and instructed them to kill the invoice, don’t put it up for a vote,” Harris stated in an interview with MSNBC on Wednesday. “He killed a invoice that might have really been an answer, as a result of he needs to run on an issue, as a substitute of fixing an issue.”
The Harris-Biden administration revoked a number of of Trump’s insurance policies like Stay in Mexico and halted the additional constructing of the border wall after they took workplace in 2021.
“You’ll be able to’t justify she ought to save her airfare. She ought to return to the White Home and inform the president to shut the border,” Trump stated.
“He can do it with the signing of only a signature and a bit of paper to the border patrol. As a substitute, she’s going there to attempt to persuade those that she wasn’t as unhealthy as everyone is aware of she was.”
Trump vowed to “terminate all sanctuary cities,” cease Catch and Launch, “shut down all entries by means of the migrant cellphone app” and reinstate Stay in Mexico.
He additionally stated he would ship federal legislation enforcement to “liberate” Aurora, Colo., which has skilled an uptick in migrants, crime and the gang Tren de Aragua.
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