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On 2024-10-10 12:44, Skeeter wrote:
> In article <ve9acq$39e7f$1@dont-email.me>, nuh-uh@nope.com says...
>>
>> On 2024-10-10 04:47, NoBody wrote:
>>> On Wed, 9 Oct 2024 13:20:24 -0700, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2024-10-09 04:41, NoBody wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, 8 Oct 2024 10:40:38 -0700, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> 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?
>>>>>
>>>>> Because it spent a bunch of money that did nothing to address the
>>>>> problem?
>>>> Then that would have HELPED his election chances, wouldn't it?
>>>
>>> Nonresponsive answer.
>>> Please try again.
>>
>> You didn't ask any question that required an answer.
>>
>> Please answer mine now.
> 
> He did and it's right above.

That position is untenable from someone who insists a question isn't an 
answer.