On Thursday, six Democrats betrayed their newly installed presidential candidate by siding with Republicans on a resolution condemning Vice President Kamala Harris’ failure as “border czar.”
Despite the best efforts of Democrats and their allies in the mainstream media at covering up Harris’ previous appointment as border czar, Republicans have been mostly successful at tying the vice president to the Biden administration’s disastrous border policies in the days since President Joe Biden dropped out of the race and endorsed Harris.
NEW: The media is now claiming VP Kamala Harris was never the ‘Border Czar’ as the Trump campaign starts ramping up attacks.
You don’t hate the media enough.
March 24, 2021: “Biden puts Harris in charge of border crisis” – Axios.
July 24, 2024: “The Trump campaign and… pic.twitter.com/tN6uMeL8CL
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) July 24, 2024
On Tuesday, House Republican Conference Chair Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) introduced a resolution formally condemning “the Biden Administration and its Border Czar, Kamala Harris’s, failure to secure the United States border.”
Today House Republicans will pass my resolution condemning Kamala Harris’ failed and dangerous record as Joe Biden’s “open border czar.”
Kamala Harris, every elected Democrat, and their stenographers in the mainstream media will run from their record, but they can’t hide.…
— Elise Stefanik (@EliseStefanik) July 25, 2024
Citing the roughly 9.7 million illegal alien encounters nationwide since Biden and Harris took office in January 2021, the resolution “affirms that the American people deserve elected officials who understand the gravity of the crisis at the border and who will execute the policies to fix the border crisis.”
Stefanik’s resolution also “clearly and firmly states that the continuation of the Biden, Harris border policies would be disastrous for both the United States and the American people.”
She went on to accuse both Biden and Harris of pushing through “far left Democrat open border policies” and directly causing the border crisis to become “significantly worse” by ending former President Donald Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy in August 2022.
The Republican conference chair also pointed out the fact that Harris waited a staggering 93 days before actually taking a trip to the southern border, while also calling out the instances of illegal aliens murdering American citizens and noting that many people on the terrorist watch list have been found crossing into the country.
Shockingly, six Democrats voted with Republicans to pass the resolution — representing the first clash between Democrat lawmakers and Harris since she began her presidential campaign. The Democrats who voted to condemn Harris were Reps. Yadira Caraveo (D-CO), Don Davis (D-NC), Jared Golden (D-ME), Mary Peltola (D-AK), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA) and Henry Cuellar (D-TX) — who has been an outspoken critic of the Biden administration’s border policies for some time now, as his district is especially affected by the lack of border security.
BREAKING: The House just voted in favor of a resolution condemning border czar Kamala Harris for the open border catastrophe.
Six Democrats voted with every Republican: Peltola, Golden, MGP, Caraveo, Don Davis, and Cuellar. pic.twitter.com/C3WfsArjeV
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) July 25, 2024