That effort comes in spite of a new Department of Homeland Security report, released last week, that said the Biden-Harris administration lost track of more than 320,000 children of migrants who crossed the border without parents.
The children were to be released into the U.S. to “qualified sponsors,” according to the report.
The report tracked a period from October 2018 to September 2023 and raises concerns that the unsupervised children could be subject to sex trafficking and forced labor.
One federal whistleblower said she believes many of them are in the hands of such adult criminals right now, The New York Post reported.
“This shows that they’re a complete failure," Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tennessee) said on Washington Watch program last week. "They’re attacking Donald Trump on the border and telling us we created this problem when, in reality, we know we didn’t."
In her nomination speech Thursday night, Harris claimed Trump worked against a border deal in February because it would have been bad for his campaign.
“So he ordered his allies in Congress to kill the deal,” she said.
Facts on GOP opposition to border bill
In reality, the controversial border deal was tied to foreign aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. Regarding the border, the bill would have given the president the power to shut down the border – power he already has through executive order – once migrant crossings exceeded 5,000 per day.
It also required detention for all migrants processed at the border except those with medical emergencies or facing imminent threats to their lives.
Trump wrote in a Truth Social post, “We need a strong, powerful and essentially PERFECT border, and unless we get that, we are better off not making a deal.”
Burchett called for a no vote on the bill weeks before Trump did, he said, calling it a “bogus” piece of legislation.
“So 4,999 people coming over our border, illegal murderers, rapists, everything you can imagine. Every criminal, every mentally ill person in Central America coming right over our border up to that point at 4,999 and they were okay," he told show host Jody Hice. "So that's what this bill did. It codified those folks coming into our country so they would be here more or less legally. This is what they were okay with."
As Democrats work to revise history regarding Harris’ role as “border czar,” voters need to be reminded of the facts.
That’s a big challenge for Republicans because “the media lies,” Burchett said.
Jenna Ellis, host of Jenna Ellis in the Morning on AFR and a former Trump attorney, said Burchett is on the mark.
As Harris remakes herself, she’s disregarding the truth.
“Kamala Harris is just outright lying and claiming that her policies are more like conservative policies when she was the border czar," Ellis said. "They’re letting a bunch of people in, they want to give illegals the vote, but she's out there saying that she's going to protect the vote and that she's actually the one who wants border security. These are just outright lies."
Mehlman: ‘Heads should roll’ over lost children
Ira Mehlman, media director for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, says there needs to be some accountability for the lost migrant children.
"In addition to the fact that the administration has just opened the floodgates and basically invited people to send their children here unaccompanied, this is a disgrace that they have children who are coming into the country – who they are obligated to make sure that they are not put in harm's way – just being released without any idea of who they're releasing them to, where they're going, and what they're doing after they come into the country," he tells AFN. "At every level, this is an absolute disgrace. Heads should roll. But in the Biden-Harris administration, that never seems to happen."
Time for Republicans to play hard ball
Republicans need to toughen up, Burchett said. There’s too much at stake in this election, he warned, to allow Harris to claim high ground on problems she and Biden created.
“We've got to start playing hard ball. We've got to quit this ringing of hands saying, ‘Let’s negotiate.’ There is no negotiation, this presidential election, this Senate election, this congressional election is for the future of this country bar none. We are staring over into this deep dark abyss and we have a chance to step back from it,” he said.
Burchett said if voters allow, “gloves will come off” from Harris and the Democrats who push an extreme left-wing agenda.
“If they get the House, the Senate and the White House it’s over. Everything we fought for over the last 200 years is over,” he said.
