Vice President Kamala Harris snapped at Fox News reporter Peter Doocy during her long-awaited visit to the U.S.-Mexico border after Doocy asked Harris about the timing of her visit, which was not announced until former President Donald Trump announced he would be visiting the border.
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Harris’s announcement came after she had gone nearly 100 days since President Biden placed her in charge of the border crisis without scheduling a trip to the border. The announcement of her trip also came after Trump’s announcement but was scheduled for the week before Trump’s trip.
“As she arrived in El Paso, she was asked by Fox News’ Peter Doocy why right now was the time to make her first trip to the border,” Fox News reported.
“It’s not my first trip, I’ve been to the border many times,” Harris replied, clarifying that she did not start avoiding the border until its condition was her responsibility.
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While Harris has been in charge of managing the border crisis, her avoidance of the border drew criticism, pushing her to falsely claim in interviews that she had been to the border while it was under her purview.
During an interview with NBC News’ Lester Holt earlier this month she said she was going to the border “at some point, you know,” before repeatedly lying by saying, “We’ve been to the border. So this whole thing about the border. We’ve been to the border. We’ve been to the border.”
When Holt responded, “You haven’t been to the border,” Harris snapped, “And I haven’t been to Europe.”
During the time Harris has been responsible for handling the border crisis, illegal immigration levels have continued to rise, breaking 20-year records for three consecutive months. According to reports earlier this year, children apprehended at the border are kept in U.S. custody “for an average of 120 hours,” nearly double the legal limit. These children are kept in facilities described by the New York Times as “akin to jails.”
“Migrant children are being forced to sleep on gym mats with foil sheets and go for days without showering as the Border Patrol struggles to handle thousands of young Central Americans who are surging across the southwestern border, some of them as young as a year old,” The New York Times reported as the illegal immigration levels surged. “Many of the children interviewed by … lawyers in recent days said they had not been allowed outdoors for days on end, confined to an overcrowded tent.”
