The Border Patrol Union slammed Vice President Kamala Harris after she made a marketing campaign cease Friday on the southern border for the primary time because the Democratic presidential nominee.
Harris traveled to Douglas, Arizona, together with a cease alongside the border wall, which she beforehand called a “gross misuse of taxpayer mmoney which she would “block any funding for” when former President Donald Trump was in workplace. The vp delivered remarks blaming Trump for the failed Senate bill proposing $48 billion to assist Ukraine in its struggle towards Russia and almost $16 billion to assist Israel in its battle with Hamas in alternate for border safety reforms
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Harris, who’s out of the blue pro-wall, beforehand known as the wall Trump’s “medieval vainness mission.”
“Trump’s border wall is an entire waste… pic.twitter.com/ACSujRAeiP
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) September 27, 2024
The Border Patrol Union blasted Harris for ignoring the migrant disaster “she created for over three years” simply to offer a 20-minute speech and photo-op on the marketing campaign path.
“Vice President Harris has ignored the border downside she created for over three years. She goes down there for 20 minutes for a photograph op and decides to repeat a number of the issues the NPBC has mentioned earlier than. However once more, the place has she been the final 3 ½ years?” the Border Patrol Union wrote on X (previously referred to as Twitter).
Vp Harris has ignored the border downside she created for over three years. She goes down there for 20 minutes for a photograph op and decides to repeat a number of the issues the NPBC has mentioned earlier than. However once more, the place has she been the final 3 1/2 years?
— Border Patrol Union – NBPC (@BPUnion) September 28, 2024
The Border Patrol Union issued two more posts fact-checking Harris for her false claims feigning concern “38 days earlier than the election.”
“VP Harris asserted in Arizona that CBP wants extra assets,” the Border Patrol Union wrote. “We now have apprehended over 8 million unlawful immigrants during the last 4 years and now you notice we want extra assist 38 days earlier than the election.”
VP Harris asserted in Arizona that CBP wanted extra assets.
We now have apprehended over 8 million unlawful immigrants during the last 4 years and now you notice we want extra assist 38 days earlier than the election.
— Border Patrol Union – NBPC (@BPUnion) September 28, 2024
“Truth verify on the Harris speech in Douglas Arizona: At present, VP Harris claimed that she performed a job in rising Border Patrol Agent extra time pay,” the Border Patrol Union additionally wrote. “This couldn’t be farther from the reality. As with all of the issues border associated she was no the place to be discovered once we wanted her.”
Truth verify on Harris speech in Douglas, Arizona:
At present, VP Harris claimed that she performed a job in rising Border Patrol Agent extra time pay.
This couldn’t be farther from the reality. As with all issues border associated she was no the place to be discovered once we wanted her.
— Border Patrol Union – NBPC (@BPUnion) September 28, 2024
Hours earlier than Harris touched down in Arizona, Artwork Del Cueto, vp of the Nationwide Border Patrol Council, launched a statement to Fox Information’s Invoice Melugin calling Harris’s belated border go to “a slap within the face.”
“After years of not simply ignoring the issue, however serving to create it, Vice President Kamala Harris is lastly headed right down to the border. That is nothing greater than for her to verify the field, however what it’s in actuality is a slap within the face in the direction of the women and men that put their lives on the road day by day, and in addition a slap within the face to the American public. The place has she been?” the assertion reads.
NEW: Border Patrol union assertion to @FoxNews re: VP Kamala Harris’ border go to in AZ right this moment – her first go to to the southern border since June 2021 when she went to El Paso, TX.
“After years of not simply ignoring the issue, however serving to create it, Vice President Kamala…
— Invoice Melugin (@BillMelugin_) September 27, 2024
Unlawful immigration emerged on the forefront of points within the 2024 marketing campaign after a number of crimes dedicated by unlawful migrants, together with the murders of Rachel Morin, Laken Riley and Jocelyn Nungaray, have been reported on by nationwide information retailers. Trump promised in February, after Riley’s loss of life, that he’ll arrange the biggest deportation operation in U.S. historical past. (RELATED: ‘Kamala Harris Refuses To Do Her Job’: JD Vance Spars With NBC Host Over Immigration Policy)
Harris’s border go to got here the identical day newly launched Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) information revealed there are roughly 425,431 unlawful migrants convicted of crimes and 222,141 unlawful migrants pending felony fees who haven’t been detained by ICE within the U.S., according to Fox Information.
President Joe Biden put Harris accountable for the border disaster on March 24, 2021, two months after taking workplace, according to the Related Press. Harris was subsequently on the helm of the border disaster for 95% of the Biden presidency.
