Posted on 10/07/2024 8:16:38 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Vice President Kamala Harris was pressed by CBS News' Bill Whitaker about whether it was a "mistake" for the Biden administration to go soft on its border policies during a tense exchange on Monday's special election episode of "60 Minutes."
"You recently visited the southern border and embraced President Biden's recent crackdown on asylum seekers, and that crackdown produced an almost immediate and dramatic decrease in the number of border crossings," Whitaker said. "If that's the right answer now, why didn't your administration take those steps in 2021?"
"The first bill we proposed to Congress was to fix our broken immigration system, knowing that if you want to actually fix it, we need Congress to act. It was not taken up," Harris responded. "Fast forward to a moment when a bipartisan group of members of the United States Senate, including one of the most conservative members of the United States Senate, got together, came up with a border security bill.
"Well, guess what happened? Donald Trump got word that this bill was afoot and could be passed, and he wants to run on a problem instead of fixing a problem. So he told his buddies in Congress, 'Kill the bill, don't let it move forward.'"
"I've been covering the border for years, and so I know this is not a problem that started with your administration," Whitaker said. "But there was an historic flood of undocumented immigrants coming across the border the first three years of your administration. As a matter of fact, arrivals quadrupled from the last year of President Trump."
"Was it a mistake to loosen the immigration policies as much as you did?" Whitaker then asked.
"It's a long-standing problem, and solutions are at hand, and from day one, literally, we have been offering solutions," Harris responded.
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Easier to nail Jello to the wall.
They didn’t go soft.
They went pedal to the medal open borders.
BiXiden didn’t “go soft”, he went high gain negative.
Komrade Kommie is likely to make it worse.
The still true saying from Mark Twain:
“If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.”
Kamala and other Dems have to keep track of learned lies from advisors and coaches.
She earlier (2021....) said Trump is dehumanizing the wonderful undocumented immigrants. Now she claims as a tough, masculine prosecutor type she can step on those criminals and put them in prison.
If she said she was once the border czar, and had a humanistic border policy, then said she was never the border czar and the policy never changed because her “values” didn’t, then she will quickly get mixed up if questioned.
Go too far and the woke types will say what’s the matter with illegals coming in?
Go not far enough and suburban and small city families will say “We’re afraid to go out. Do something about those gangs of ex-cons roaming around.”
Was it a “soft border policy” or a “hard border policy” and what do those even mean for Biden and Harris?
My God. He was practically trying to answer for her. Freaking disgusting.
What was the Kackler’s BAC?
Hey she grew up in the richest suburb in Canada. Back off man.
They're NOT leadership material. In fact, they're the lowest quality of human beings. This govt is in shambles because of them and their irresponsible ineptitude's and downright treason.
CBS is throwing Kamala under the bus.
Hmmmm?
Diddy?????
[VP repeatedly dodges]
Of course she dodges.
Has to keep her voters all nice and stupid.
Um...like what?
Maybe the Deep State is giving up on 2024 and they'll regroup for 2028.
Another sign, we saw that they're making fun of her on SNL. Remember thats not allowed.
I was surprised by that myself.
Pulling in Dana Carvey was a tell.
It doesn’t surprise me that Harris would dance around the question, but it surprises me greatly that CBS would ask.
SNL never ever goes after a dem unless they have been given the green light to do so
Makes you wonder. We’ll find out if this is the case in November if Trump wins.
Wake me when someone actually challenges her on that gaslighting LIE.
Is FEMA a money laundering operation?
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