Ronna McDaniel, chairman of the Republican National Committee, recently said that the U.S. southern border is facing a human crisis, and the Biden administration is not responding at all to address it. It has been about 2 weeks since Vice President Kamala Harris was assigned to head the border, but she has not visited the border until now, which is an insult to the border workers who have worked so hard to implement the new immigration policy on their behalf.
This March, U.S. Customs Border Protection (CBP) has arrested 171,000 illegal border crossers, including 18,800 unaccompanied children. This compares to only 34,000 illegal border crossers in March 2020 under Trump’s strong policy.
McDaniel said that in September 2019, Biden told illegal immigrants that “you should come” to the U.S., and they all heard him loud and clear, so it was Biden’s problem.
She believes it’s now Harris’ problem, too, after Biden “assigned” Harris to manage the influx of refugees at the border and the U.S. immigration system two weeks ago. “Seeing the scale of the crisis and the risk of viral transmission, the vice president should have taken the Air Force Two to the border immediately, shouldn’t he?”
“But that didn’t happen, and after the Democrats regressed to the incredible ‘catch and release’ policies of the past,” McDaniel said, “Harris joined his boss (Biden) and didn’t go look at the border either. Maybe she doesn’t want to be photographed with her children in the background crowded in cages or she’s too busy complaining about living in a 70,000-square-foot mansion.”
McDaniel said Harris hasn’t even given a news conference since she was given the assignment at the border, working harder to get out of her responsibilities than to meet the crisis head-on.
To make matters worse, she criticized Harris, she said, she also went on vacation to California. “And actually California has a border, and she didn’t even visit the border on Easter weekend. Instead she went to Los Angeles and Oakland without scheduling a public event. And this came after the governors of the border states publicly asked her to visit the border in person to fix the problem.”
She criticized Harris for her “complete weakness and lack of concern in using taxpayer money to go on vacation to California when there is a human crisis going on miles away from her and she is not there to see it.”
McDaniel said, “Harris’ inability to do even the most basic thing of just going to look is a disgrace to the people who work overtime there to care for tens of thousands of unaccompanied children. Because this policy was set by their government …… And the border workers are working under tremendous pressure, facing the challenges of the epidemic, when the whole system is already on the verge of collapse.”
She talked about how border workers want to avoid an outbreak, but they themselves are being put in such danger. And it was too easy for Harris to add a trip to express her commitment to the staff’s efforts. “Air Force Two is her special plane, and it’s only a 30-minute flight from Los Angeles to San Diego.”
McDaniel mentioned that “Harris has likened border workers who have been overused to members of the Ku Klux Klan. Perhaps Biden should not have appointed Harris to pick up the slack when he set this dangerous policy with a broad stroke of the pen.”
She also said that making crazy and erroneous comments like that about the men and women who protect the U.S. border shows that the Harris psyche simply doesn’t care about her people. That alone makes her unfit to manage the border or to be a “crisis manager” when her position is largely “ceremonial.
She commented that Biden often referred to Harris as influential and important. He also wanted people to call his administration the “Biden-Harris” administration. And he repeatedly called Harris “the president. If Harris is shamefully avoiding a border crisis, then Biden’s judgment and leadership are not up to the task of the presidency.
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