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 12:47:58 -0700
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On 2024-10-08 11:17, Skeeter wrote:
> In article <ve3qqm$28i14$7@dont-email.me>, nuh-uh@nope.com says...
>>
>> 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?
>
> What a dumb question.
Explain why you think so.