From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics,alt.politics.trump,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican
Subject: Re: Kamela Harris on 60 minutes = FAIL
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2024 10:40:38 -0700
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On 2024-10-08 10:34, NoBody wrote:
> 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.
>
> https://www.foxnews.com/media/60-minutes-asks-harris-whether-mistake-biden-admin-go-soft-border-vp-repeatedly-dodges?fbclid=IwY2xjawFyTABleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHU7b1A3i67zYH1ZuuRcDgOkGCtU25HYve9RL5lNUqEw1DXjdyJOP88WFjg_aem_oRywo9a6LtumpPT67x6Nsw
>
> No she has not offered solutions. That bill did nothing to strengthen
> the border and repeating the lie doesn't make it true.
If the bill did nothing to strengthen the border...
...why did Trump want it killed?