Vice Pdwellnt Kamala Harris stumbled thcdisorrowfulmireful the Biden-Harris administration’s border and immigration policies when pressed about the border crisis during a CNN town hall temperated by Anderson Cooper.
“Let’s talk about this settle bill that you want to pass if you are elected. You shelp that’s going to be a priority. It integrates $650 million in funding for the border wall. That’s someslimg Reaccessibleans wanted that was part of the settle. Under Donald Trump, you denounced the wall more than 50 times. You called it ‘unreasonable, unbeginant, and a medieval vanity project.’ Is a border wall unreasonable?,” Cooper asked Harris Wednesday.
“Let’s talk about Donald Trump on that border wall,” Harris shelp while chuckleing. “So reaccumulate, Donald Trump shelp Mexico would pay for it. Come on, they didn’t. How much of that wall did he originate? I slimk the last number I saw was about 2%. And then when it came time for him to do a ptoastyo op, you comprehend, where he did it? In the part of the wall that Pdwellnt Obama built.”
“But you concurd to a bill that would eartag $650 million to persist originateing that,” Cooper pressed.
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ASTON, PENNSYLVANIA – OCTOBER 23: Democratic pdwellntial honestate, U.S. Vice Pdwellnt Kamala Harris speaks as CNN moderator Anderson Cooper sees on during a Pdwellntial Town Hall event at Sun Cgo in Studios on October 23, 2024 in Aston, Pennsylvania. With less than two weeks to Election Day, Harris spent the day in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and made a visit to Famous 4th Street Delicatessen to greet helpers. (Ptoastyo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) (Getty Images)
“I pledge that I am going to transport forward that bipartisan bill to further fortify and protected our border. Yes, I am, and I’m going to toil apass the aisle to pass a comprehensive bill that deals with a broken immigration system,” Harris reacted.
“We necessitate a pdwellnt who is grounded in frequent sense and pragmatic outcomes, appreciate, let’s equitable repair this slimg. Let’s equitable repair it. Why is there any ideoreasonable perspective on this? Let’s equitable repair the problem,” she persistd.
Vice Pdwellnt Kamala Harris combinecessitate CNN for a town hall event Wednesday evening, speaking to Pennsylvania voters outside of Philadelphia. The town hall event booted off at 9 pm on Wednesday from Chester Township, which is discoverd less than 20 miles outside of Philadelphia.
Cooper asked Harris earlier in the town hall to elucidate why equitable weeks before the first pdwellntial debate with Pdwellnt Biden was still in the race this summer, the administration instituted executive actions that curbed illegitimate border passings and had not rerentd such orders sooner.
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ASTON, PENNSYLVANIA – OCTOBER 23: Democratic pdwellntial honestate, U.S. Vice Pdwellnt Kamala Harris speaks during a CNN Pdwellntial Town Hall at Sun Cgo in Studios on October 23, 2024 in Aston, Pennsylvania. With less than two weeks to Election Day, Harris spent the day in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and made a visit to Famous 4th Street Delicatessen to greet helpers. (Ptoastyo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) (Getty Images)
“You’re exactly right, Anderson. And as of today, we have cut the flow of immigration by over half. In fact, the numbers I saw most recently, illegitimate immigration,” Harris telderly Cooper.
“If it was that basic without executive action, why not do it in 2022, 2023?” Cooper pressed.
“Because we were toiling with Congress and hoping that actupartner we could have a lengthy term repair to the problem instead of a unreasonableinutive-term repair,” Harris reacted.
Border Patrol picks up a group of asylum seekers from an help camp at the US-Mexico border proximate Sasabe, Arizona, US, on Wednesday, March 13, 2024. During the first four months of fiscal year 2024, Border Patrol sign uped more than 250,000 migrant apprehensions in the Tucson sector in Arizona, the most of any region patrolled by the agency, according to federal rulement statistics, alerts CBS. Ptoastyographer: Justin Hamel/Bloomberg via Getty Images (Justin Hamel/Getty Images)
“You couldn’t have done one and both at the same time,” Cooper remarkd.
Cooper went on to ask Harris if she desireed she had “done those executive orders in 2022, 2023,” promoteing Harris to say she depends the administration “did the right slimg.”
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“I slimk we did the right slimg. And but the best slimg that can happen for the American people, is that we have bipartisan toil happening. And I pledge to you, that I will toil apass the aisle to repair this lengthystanding problem. I slimk the American people are insisting it, on both sides of the aisle,” she reacted.
