Much has been made about the Vice President's recent trip to the border near Douglas, Arizona. Her visit was very short, less than an hour. After briefly talking with Customs and Border Protection agents, she held a campaign rally at Cochise College in Douglas. She pledged, if she becomes President, to keep the current asylum policies in place, to grant amnesty to a broad array of illegal aliens and to enact the Senate border bill that was voted down twice this year.
Harris told officials that border security has been a “longstanding priority.”
“The United States is a sovereign nation, and I believe we have a duty to set rules at our border and to enforce them … and I take that responsibility very seriously,” she said.
Ira Mehlman is Media Director for the Federation for American Immigration Reform.
"After 3½ years of utter chaos, surrender of our sovereignty, it's hard to believe that the American public is going to have its mind changed by a photo op at the border six weeks before the elections."
Record speaks for itself
Mehlman says it is obvious that her trip was an acknowledgement of a serious reality.
"She and President Biden are underwater with the American public when it comes to immigration and securing the border, and she is doing the best she can to try to change that perception, but they have a 3½ year record of open borders, allowing criminals into the country, destroying communities all across the country, sticking the taxpayers with billions and billions of dollars in costs. So, it's hard to imagine that anybody's mind is going to be changed by her visit to the border last week."
