From: Bi-valve Mollusk <Bi-valve_Mollusk@riptear.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 14:37:25 -0400
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On 10/8/2024 1:40 PM, Alan wrote:
> 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?
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