Foxy Kamala
Special report: Last night, Kamala Harris sat for an interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier. The roughly 25-minute segment was frequently contentious and revealing, mostly in that it reminded viewers how unique it is to see legitimately tough questions volleyed at Harris by a member of the media class.
“How many illegal immigrants would you estimate your administration has released into the country over the last three and a half years?” Baier asked from the jump.
“I’m glad you raised the issue of immigration because I agree with you. It is a, it is a topic of discussion that people want to rightly have,” responded Harris. “And you know what I’m going to talk about.”
Baier pushed: “Just a number, do you think it’s 1 million, 3 million?”
“Brett, let’s just get to the point. Okay. The point is that we have a broken immigration system that needs to be repaired,” responded Harris.
“So your Homeland Security Secretary said that 85 percent of apprehensions—” continued Baier, before being cut off by Harris: “I’m not finished. I’m not finished.”
Watch the full exchange here.
“When you came into office, your administration immediately reversed a number of Trump border policies,” continued Baier. “Most significantly, the policy that required illegal immigrants to be detained through deportation either in the U S. or in Mexico, and you switched that policy. They were released from custody awaiting trial.…Included in those were a large number of single men, adult men, who went on to commit heinous crimes. So looking back, do you regret the decision to terminate Remain in Mexico at the beginning of your administration?”
Harris responded: “At the beginning of our administration, within practically hours of taking the oath, the first bill that we offered Congress—before we worked on infrastructure, before the Inflation Reduction Act, before the CHIPS and Science Act, before any, before the bipartisan Safer Communities Act—the first bill, practically within hours of taking the oath, was a bill to fix our immigration system.”
“We recognized from Day One, that to the point of this being your first question, it is a priority for us as a nation and for the American people,” she added. “And our focus has been on fixing a problem.…we have done a number of things, including to address our asylum system and put more resources, getting more judges, what we needed to do to tighten up penalties and increase penalties for illegal crossings, what we needed to do to deal with ports, points of entry between border entry points. That’s the work we did and we worked on supporting what was a bipartisan effort, including some of the most conservative members of the United States Congress.…Donald Trump learned about that bill and told them to kill it, because he preferred to run on a problem instead of fixing a problem,” continued Harris.
A nonanswer answer: On a fundamental level, Harris didn’t really grapple with the question, which was about the Biden administration’s reversal of the Remain in Mexico policy, which required migrants seeking asylum in the United States to remain outside the country prior to their court date versus being let in while awaiting their court date. And Harris is partially correct that the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021—the bill she was ostensibly referencing—would have simplified the asylum-seeking process, reduced administrative burdens on people seeking employment-related visas, and provided a pathway to citizenship for people who entered the country as kids through the DACA progr
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