On Tuesday, Democrat Senator Joe Manchin (WV) slammed Democrat Vice President Kamala Harris for claiming that the United States’ southern border is “secure.”
Vice President Kamala Harris made the claim during an interview with NBC host Chuck Todd.
“We had 2 million people come across this border for the first time ever,” Todd asked. “You’re confident this border is secure?”
“We have a secure border in that that is a priority for any nation, including ours and our administration,” Harris claimed.
Manchin rebutted Harris’ claim during an interview on Fox News with host Bret Baier.
“It’s wrong. She’s dead wrong on that. And I have said this,” Manchin said. “If we don’t secure it — I voted every time for the wall. But we need the wall and a lot more, technology, more agents. The 2013 immigration bill was still the best piece of legislation I think that we have ever had before us. We couldn’t get it passed through the Republican House at that time because of some politics involved there.”
“And they — the amnesty, people were shouting the word amnesty,” he continued. “That piece of legislation would have corrected everything we have going wrong. But, for anybody — the vice president, president, anybody — to say our borders are secured, that is not accurate. I have been there. It’s wrong.”
.@BretBaier: "Vice President Harris said this weekend the southern border is 'secure.'"
Manchin: "It's wrong. She's dead wrong on that." pic.twitter.com/O2IIJsNu0E
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Harris, who notoriously avoided the border for nearly 100 days after being placed in charge of handling the border crisis by President Biden, made her comments just days before Customs and Border Protection is set to release the illegal immigration numbers for August, which are expected to put the total number of migrant encounters for fiscal year 2022 far beyond 2 million.
In July 2022, illegal immigration already reached the highest levels on record with nearly 2 million migrants encounters in fiscal year 2022. The figure from just part of fiscal year 2022 dwarfs the previous record high of 1,734,686 encounters in all of fiscal year 2021 – which was also set under the Biden administration.
