60 Minutes reporter Bill Whitaker even took border czar VP Kamala Harris to task about the border crisis.
Yes, the immigration problem didn’t start under the Biden-Harris administration, but it got way worse.
(The government should have fixed our immigration system a loooooooooong time ago.)
Whitaker also wasn’t going to allow Harris to ignore his questions (emphasis mine):
Bill Whitaker: 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. If that’s the right answer now, why didn’t your administration take those steps in 2021?Vice President Kamala Harris: 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. 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 the 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.”Bill Whitaker: But I’ve been covering the border for– for years. And so I know this is not a problem that started with your administration.Vice President Kamala Harris: Correct. Correct.Bill Whitaker: 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?Vice President Kamala Harris: It’s a longstanding problem. And solutions are at hand. And from day one, literally, we have been offering solutions.Bill Whitaker: What I was asking was, was it a mistake to kind of allow that flood to happen in the first place?Vice President Kamala Harris: I think– the policies that we have been proposing are about fixing a problem, not promoting a problem, okay? But the–Bill Whitaker: But the numbers did quadruple under your–Vice President Kamala Harris: And the numbers today–Bill Whitaker: –under your watch–Vice President Kamala Harris: –because of what we have done– we have cut the flow of illegal immigration by half. We have cut the–Bill Whitaker: But should you have done that–Vice President Kamala Harris: –flow of fentanyl–Bill Whitaker: —should you have done that–Vice President Kamala Harris: –by half. But we need Congress to be able to act to actually fix the problem.
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