Senate Republican Conference

08/16/2024 | Press release | Archived content

Barrasso Highlights Kamala Harris’s Dangerously Liberal, Open-Border Policies

Today, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced that more than 10.1 million illegal immigrants have entered the United States under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

It's easy to understand why. Border Czar Kamala Harris has failed to stop the flood of illegal immigration. Instead, the Biden-Harris administration proudly supports open borders. Democrats have been cheerleaders for sanctuary cities and created incentives to encourage even more illegal immigration.

As Senate Republican Conference Chairman John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) recently said:

"We had a secure border four years ago. Then, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris came into the White House. Biden and Harris canceled the border wall. Biden-Harris canceled remain in Mexico. They replaced detain and deport with catch and release.

"President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris presided over an invasion of our Southern Border by 10 million illegal immigrants. Since the time Vice President Harris was appointed as Border Czar, millions and millions of illegal immigrants have come into the country. Millions and millions of more known got-aways hiding from authorities have gotten into this country. In total we're looking at 10 million illegal immigrants now in our communities.

"Many communities across this country are overrun and overwhelmed. Yet Joe Biden and Kamala Harris don't seem to care. They don't seem to care about the drugs and the death and the destruction that are harming American families from coast to coast.

"Vice President Harris has a view of border security that to me is particularly twisted and tortured. Here is her view, as she stated it.

"Basically, if you're an illegal immigrant, you're not a criminal, according to Kamala Harris. But if you are an agent of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE, in her words, you're comparable to the Ku Klux Klan. That's from the Vice President of the United States.

"She also believes this: if you're an illegal immigrant, you're entitled to free health care. If an American citizen, she proposes that you would actually you lose your ability to choose your health care and private health care would be eliminated. No private health care for American citizens, who would then be forced to pay for health care for illegal immigrants.

"That is the view of the Vice President of the United States, and now the candidate for President by the Democrat Party. It is ignorant. It is insulting. And it is out of touch.

"If her views are America's policy, millions and millions more illegal immigrants will continue to flood across our Southern Border. It's a magnet drawing people in."

BACKGROUND // Kamala Harris's Dangerously Liberal Record at the Southern Border: