{"id":2309765,"date":"2024-07-26T16:51:01","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T20:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2309765"},"modified":"2024-07-26T16:57:57","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T20:57:57","slug":"media-tacitly-admit-biden-harris-border-policy-is-a-total-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-tacitly-admit-biden-harris-border-policy-is-a-total-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Tacitly Admit Biden-Harris Border Policy Is A Total Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmedia-tacitly-admit-biden-harris-border-policy-is-a-total-failure%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2309765&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>On March 24, 2021, President Joe Biden appointed Vice\u2063 President Kamala Harris as the lead on addressing the border crisis, a \u200brole many media outlets dubbed as &#8220;border czar.&#8221; Initially\u200d supported by \u200bBiden&#8217;s statements, this attribution of responsibility has since drawn scrutiny\u2062 from various news sources. Recently, reports \u200dfrom outlets\u200c like USA Today and Time have downplayed Harris&#8217;s role, \u200basserting that she\u2063 was never\u2063 officially designated as &#8220;border czar.&#8221; This shift in media narrative comes after significant immigration challenges during the Biden administration, \u2063as it appears politically \u200cinconvenient for Harris to be linked to these failures now that Biden \u200bis no longer in the race.<\/p>\n<p>The media&#8217;s\u2062 change of heart isn&#8217;t due to\u200c new facts but reflects a strategic move in response to public \u2062perception\u2062 of Harris\u2019s effectiveness \u2062and\u200d credibility on immigration issues. \u200bAlthough Biden has touted reductions in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-recruiting-gop-senators-for-amnesty-deal\/\" title=\"Democrats Recruiting GOP Senators for Amnesty Deal\">illegal border crossings<\/a>, these claims \u2064are considered misleading, given seasonal patterns\u200c in immigration data. Additionally,\u200d past statistics reveal that current encounters are still\u200c higher than those recorded during the final months of the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>Harris faces\u200b significant \u200bmessaging challenges, including conflicting narratives about her responsibilities and effectiveness in her role. Critics argue\u200d that her past statements regarding immigration align her with \u200blenient policies, raising questions about her\u200c accountability and experience. Her track record includes controversial remarks and positions against stricter immigration enforcement. As immigration remains a\u200b top concern for many Americans, how Harris \u2064navigates these perceptions could significantly impact her political future.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>On March 24, 2021, Axios <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2021\/03\/24\/biden-harris-border-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>, &ldquo;Biden puts Harris in charge of the border crisis.&rdquo; The same day, The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/03\/24\/us\/politics\/biden-harris-migration.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stated<\/a> that Biden &ldquo;gave the vice president a prominent role in the politically charged issue.&rdquo; Numerous other legacy media outlets <a href=\"https:\/\/newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/nicholas-fondacaro\/2024\/07\/24\/orwellian-media-try-purge-record-kamala-harris-joe-bidens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">called<\/a> Kamala Harris the &ldquo;border czar&rdquo; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-04-26\/biden-s-border-crisis-is-aggravated-by-fights-with-key-leaders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">heralded<\/a> her prominent role.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of the appointment, Joe Biden himself <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2021\/03\/24\/remarks-by-president-biden-and-vice-president-harris-in-a-meeting-on-immigration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>, &ldquo;So it&rsquo;s not her full responsibility and job, but she&rsquo;s leading the effort,&rdquo; and &ldquo;When she speaks, she speaks for me. Doesn&rsquo;t have to check with me. She knows what she&rsquo;s doing.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>But corporate media have engaged in a complete about-face this past week, now decrying the use of the term &ldquo;border czar&rdquo; and minimizing Harris&rsquo; role in the Biden-Harris administration&rsquo;s handling of the border. USA Today <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/factcheck\/2024\/07\/23\/kamala-harris-not-border-czar-of-biden-administration-fact-check\/74498717007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stated<\/a> that &ldquo;Harris was never put in charge of the border or made &lsquo;border czar,&rsquo; immigration experts said.&rdquo; Time <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7001817\/kamala-harris-immigration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">declared<\/a>, &ldquo;Kamala Harris Was Never Biden&rsquo;s &lsquo;Border Czar.&rsquo; Here&rsquo;s What She Really Did.&rdquo; As my colleague Jordan Boyd <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/07\/24\/after-years-of-regaling-vp-as-border-czar-media-claim-harris-was-never-in-charge-of-the-invasion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">detailed<\/a>, Axios even reneged on its own 2021 coverage of Harris as border czar in the rush to exonerate Harris of culpability in the illegal immigration crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The media&rsquo;s about-face comes not as a result of a change in facts (in which case a reversal would not only be justified but necessary) but because of a change in circumstances. When Biden dropped out of the race, it became politically inconvenient for Harris to be associated with the immigration policy failures of the administration in which she serves.<\/p>\n<p>In essence, the media pivoted because Harris has a messaging problem. But it&rsquo;s not &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7001817\/kamala-harris-immigration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a narrative problem<\/a>&rdquo; drummed up by right-wing misinformation. Harris has a problem because the Biden-Harris administration&rsquo;s border policy has largely been viewed as a complete failure.<\/p>\n<p>As recently as Wednesday evening, Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FXST4dGREGY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">touted<\/a> his border record (as have the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/investigations\/border-crossings-fallen-lowest-monthly-number-biden-presidency-rcna159777\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">media<\/a>), citing lower illegal immigration numbers. But even this perceived victory is ambiguous at best. Historically, border encounters have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/short-reads\/2021\/11\/09\/whats-happening-at-the-u-s-mexico-border-in-7-charts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dipped<\/a> during the hotter summer months, so this is an expected statistical variation rather than a sign of policy success. <\/p>\n<p>In addition, Biden claimed that border encounters are currently lower than when Trump left office, which is false. Encounters in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/newsroom\/stats\/southwest-land-border-encounters-fy22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">both<\/a> December 2020 (40,565) and January 2021 (78,414) were fewer than the 83,536 encounters the Border Patrol <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/newsroom\/national-media-release\/cbp-releases-june-2024-monthly-update#:~:text=In%20June%20%E2%80%93%20the%20first%20month,entry%20along%20the%20southwest%20border.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> in June 2024 (the lowest number of Biden&rsquo;s presidency). More importantly, as Newsweek <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/kamala-harris-team-claims-success-immigration-what-does-her-record-show-1930031\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reports<\/a>, June encounters were still &ldquo;nearly double the average of monthly apprehensions during the Trump administration.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the baggage of the Biden-Harris administration&rsquo;s failures, Harris now faces a second messaging problem, this one related to the media&rsquo;s latest propaganda campaign. The media, as described above, emphasized Harris&rsquo; &ldquo;border czar&rdquo; role when Biden gave it to her but are now saying her role was quite limited. <\/p>\n<p>This raises a sticky question: Did Harris shoulder the weight of real responsibility as a second-in-command of the Biden-Harris administration, or is the jab that &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/The_Kyle_Mann\/status\/1816515140843614376\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">she actually wasn&rsquo;t in charge of anything<\/a>&rdquo; closer to describing reality? In other words, if her role in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-calls-out-kamala-harris-for-mishandling-border-doesnt-look-like-shes-very-interested\/\" title=\"Democrat Calls Out Kamala Harris for Mishandling Border: &#039;Doesn&#039;t Look Like She&#039;s Very Interested&#039;\">stemming illegal immigration<\/a> (one of her most publicized responsibilities) wasn&rsquo;t substantial enough for her to bear any responsibility for the immigration failure, how can she argue that her experience in the Biden-Harris administration prepared her for the presidency?<\/p>\n<p>Media outlets argue that Harris&rsquo; job wasn&rsquo;t nonexistent, but limited &mdash; limited to addressing &ldquo;root causes&rdquo; in three specific countries. Technically true. But both <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7001817\/kamala-harris-immigration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Biden<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/03\/24\/us\/politics\/biden-harris-migration.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Harris<\/a> have championed the &ldquo;root causes&rdquo; strategy as an integral part of their approach to immigration, and it was Harris who released a comprehensive &ldquo;root causes&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Root-Causes-Strategy.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">plan<\/a> in July 2021. Harris was on a &ldquo;root causes&rdquo; campaign trip to Central America when Lester Holt asked Harris why she hadn&rsquo;t been to the border. She said, &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve been to the border&rdquo; three times before admitting that she hadn&rsquo;t. While she did argue that her specific focus was &ldquo;root causes,&rdquo; this would have been the perfect opportunity for Harris (or Holt) to clarify that she wasn&rsquo;t the border czar, that she didn&rsquo;t have enough power to make necessary changes, that she disagreed with Biden on border policy, and so forth. She didn&rsquo;t.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it would be unexpected for Harris to openly criticize her own administration&rsquo;s policies while still vice president, but without such a critique, voters are justified in assuming that Harris will carry on Biden&rsquo;s disastrous border policies &mdash; that is, unless her record prior to serving in the Biden-Harris administration indicates otherwise. It does not, which is Harris&rsquo; third messaging problem.<\/p>\n<p>Harris&rsquo; third (and most difficult) messaging problem is tied to her own rhetoric and record on illegal immigration. Harris has <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/alx\/status\/1816530438711599544\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stated repeatedly<\/a> that &ldquo;an undocumented immigrant is not a criminal,&rdquo; which logically leads to her conclusion that &ldquo;we&rsquo;re not going to treat people who are undocumented and cross the border as criminals.&rdquo; Harris doesn&rsquo;t believe that immigration laws should be enforced, in other words. In 2018, Harris <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KM-4PROZkUM&amp;t=9s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">compared<\/a> Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to the Ku Klux Klan in a Senate confirmation hearing. When asked about abolishing ICE in 2019, she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/kasie-dc\/watch\/sen-harris-we-must-reexamine-ice-and-its-role-1263049283634\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> that &ldquo;we&rsquo;ve got to critically reexamine ICE&rdquo; and &ldquo;we need to probably think about starting from scratch.&rdquo; Beyond this, Harris has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0BR-NsriOVs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stated<\/a> that she is &ldquo;opposed to any policy that would deny in our country any human being from access to public safety, public education, or public health, period.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Time article aimed at debunking Harris&rsquo; status as border czar <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7001817\/kamala-harris-immigration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claimed<\/a> she &ldquo;has a broader record on immigration, including backing a bipartisan border-security deal aimed at reducing border crossings earlier this year.&rdquo; But that bill still allowed &ldquo;a flood of aliens&rdquo; to enter the country, as The Federalist&rsquo;s Senior Legal Correspondent Margot Cleveland <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/02\/05\/under-the-senates-atrocious-border-bill-everybody-gets-asylum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">makes clear<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>In addition, Time notes that &ldquo;as Senator, [Harris] was an outspoken advocate of legal protections for DACA recipients, made headlines for aggressively questioning Trump immigration officials, and derided the then-President&rsquo;s border wall as a &lsquo;medieval vanity project,&rsquo;&rdquo; but these examples detract from Harris&rsquo; credibility on immigration rather than bolstering it. When it comes to her <a href=\"http:\/\/Border%20Patrol%20Chief%20Jason%20Owens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">relationship<\/a> with the U.S. Border Patrol, Harris was quick to wrongfully denounce agents accused of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/photographer-who-took-horseback-border-patrol-photos-ive-never-seen-them-whip-anyone\/\" title=\"Photographer Who Took Horseback Border Patrol Photos: \u2018I\u2019ve Never Seen Them Whip Anyone\u2019\">whipping illegal immigrants<\/a>, and she failed to meet with Border Patrol chiefs during her tenure as vice president.<\/p>\n<p>Harris&rsquo; vulnerability on immigration is critical because Americans have <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/644570\/immigration-named-top-problem-third-straight-month.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">consistently ranked<\/a> immigration as the most important issue in the months leading up to the election. For the first time in almost 20 years, the majority of Americans, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/647123\/sharply-americans-curb-immigration.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">55 percent<\/a>, are in favor of decreasing the level of immigration. That 55 percent number is up from nearly 41 percent last year &mdash; and close to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/06\/13\/poll-in-agreement-with-trump-6-in-10-voters-back-mass-deportations-of-illegal-aliens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">two-thirds<\/a> have indicated support for mass deportations of illegal immigrants. The gap between the Biden-Harris administration&rsquo;s immigration policies (which <a href=\"https:\/\/oversight.house.gov\/release\/hearing-wrap-up-biden-administrations-catch-and-release-operation-has-inflamed-the-raging-crisis-at-the-southern-border%EF%BF%BC\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">included<\/a> a catch-and-release protocol that involved releasing as many as 75 percent of illegal aliens into the U.S.) and the policies most Americans support is vast. <\/p>\n<p>Trump, on the other hand, has been consistent in his opposition to illegal immigration, and his administration was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/immigration\/2024\/02\/11\/trump-biden-immigration-border-compared\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">decisively more successful<\/a> in its efforts to create a secure border, which is what Americans want.<\/p>\n<p>Even if Harris were never <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harris-appointed-border-czar-3-weeks-ago-still-no-formal-press-conference-or-border-visit\/\" title=\"Harris appointed border czar 3 weeks ago, still no formal press conference or border visit\">appointed border czar<\/a>, she&rsquo;s made it clear that her handling of border crisis as chief executive will be just as bad or worse than that of the Biden-Harris administration if she is elected. It&rsquo;s a reality the media are working hard to obscure.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Joshua Monnington is an assistant editor at The Federalist. He was previously an editor at Regnery Publishing and is a graduate of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 24, 2021, Axios announced that &#8220;Biden has assigned Harris to oversee the border crisis.&#8221; That same day, The New York Times noted that Biden had given the vice president a significant position in this contentious issue. Many traditional media outlets referred to Kamala Harris as the &#8220;border czar&#8221; and celebrated her key involvement. At the time of her appointment, Joe Biden remarked, &#8220;It&#8217;s not her entire responsibility, but she is leading the effort,&#8221; and added, &#8220;When she speaks, she speaks for me. She doesn&#8217;t need to check with me. She knows what she&#8217;s doing.&#8221; However, in a recent shift, corporate media have begun to criticize the term &#8220;border czar&#8221; and downplay Harris&#8217;s role in the administration&#8217;s border management. USA Today reported that &#8220;Harris was never put in charge of the border or designated as &#8216;border czar,&#8217; according to immigration experts.&#8221; Time magazine stated, &#8220;Kamala Harris Was Never Biden&#8217;s &#8216;Border Czar.&#8217; Here\u2019s What She Really Did.&#8221; As noted by my colleague Jordan Boyd, Axios even contradicted its own 2021 reporting on Harris&#8217;s role in an effort to absolve her of responsibility for the immigration crisis.<\/p>\n<p>This media shift is not due to a change in facts\u2014where a reversal would be warranted\u2014but rather a change in political circumstances. With Biden&#8217;s withdrawal from the race, it became politically unwise for Harris to be linked to the administration&#8217;s immigration policy failures. Essentially, the media&#8217;s change in narrative stems from Harris&#8217;s communication challenges, which are not merely a &#8220;narrative problem&#8221; created by right-wing misinformation. The issue lies in the fact that the Biden-Harris administration&#8217;s border policy is largely perceived as a failure.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Biden has praised his border record, as have media outlets, citing a decrease in illegal immigration numbers. However, this perceived success is ambiguous; historically, border encounters tend to decline during the hotter summer months, making this a typical statistical fluctuation rather than evidence of effective policy. Furthermore, Biden&#8217;s claim that current border encounters are lower than when Trump left office is inaccurate. Encounters in December 2020 (40,565) and January 2021 (78,414) were fewer than the 83,536 encounters reported by Border Patrol in June 2024, which was the lowest number during Biden&#8217;s presidency. More significantly, as Newsweek points out, June encounters were still &#8220;nearly double the average of monthly apprehensions during the Trump administration.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the challenges stemming from the Biden-Harris administration&#8217;s failures, Harris now faces a second communication issue related to the media&#8217;s recent narrative shift. Initially, the media emphasized her &#8220;border czar&#8221; role, but they are now downplaying it. This raises a difficult question: Did Harris genuinely bear significant responsibility as the second-in-command of the Biden-Harris administration, or is the assertion that &#8220;she wasn&#8217;t in charge of anything&#8221; more accurate? If her involvement in addressing illegal immigration\u2014one of her most publicized duties\u2014was not substantial enough for her to be held accountable for the immigration failures, how can she claim that her experience in the Biden-Harris administration has prepared her for the presidency?<\/p>\n<p>Media outlets argue that while Harris&#8217;s role wasn&#8217;t nonexistent, it was limited to addressing &#8220;root causes&#8221; in three specific countries. This is technically accurate, but both Biden and Harris have promoted the &#8220;root causes&#8221; strategy as a key component of their immigration approach, and Harris herself released a comprehensive &#8220;root causes&#8221; plan in July 2021. During a trip to Central America focused on &#8220;root causes,&#8221; when Lester Holt asked Harris why she hadn&#8217;t visited the border, she claimed, &#8220;We&#8217;ve been to the border&#8221; before eventually admitting she hadn&#8217;t. Although she emphasized her focus on &#8220;root causes,&#8221; this was an opportunity for Harris (or Holt) to clarify that she wasn&#8217;t the border czar, lacked the authority to implement necessary changes, and disagreed with Biden on border policy. She did not take that opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>It would be unexpected for Harris to openly criticize her administration&#8217;s policies while serving as vice president, but without such a critique, voters may justifiably assume that she would continue Biden&#8217;s ineffective border policies\u2014unless her previous record suggests otherwise, which it does not. This leads to Harris&#8217;s third communication challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Harris&#8217;s third and most significant messaging issue is tied to her own statements and record on illegal immigration. She has repeatedly asserted that &#8220;an undocumented immigrant is not a criminal,&#8221; which logically leads to her conclusion that &#8220;we&#8217;re not going to treat people who are undocumented and cross the border as criminals.&#8221; Essentially, Harris does not support the enforcement of immigration laws. In 2018, she compared Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to the Ku Klux Klan during a Senate confirmation hearing. When asked about abolishing ICE in 2019, she stated that &#8220;we&#8217;ve got to critically reexamine ICE&#8221; and suggested starting from scratch. Additionally, Harris has expressed opposition to any policy that would deny any individual in the U.S. access to public safety, education, or health services.<\/p>\n<p>The Time article aimed at debunking Harris&#8217;s status as border czar claimed she &#8220;has a broader record on immigration, including backing a bipartisan border-security deal aimed at reducing border crossings earlier this year.&#8221; However, that bill still permitted &#8220;a flood of aliens&#8221; to enter the country, as noted by The Federalist&#8217;s Senior Legal Correspondent Margot Cleveland. Time also highlighted that &#8220;as Senator, [Harris] was an outspoken advocate of legal protections for DACA recipients, made headlines for aggressively questioning Trump immigration officials, and derided the then-President&#8217;s border wall as a &#8216;medieval vanity project,'&#8221; but these examples undermine rather than enhance her credibility on immigration. Harris was quick to unjustly condemn Border Patrol agents accused of mistreating illegal immigrants and failed to meet with Border Patrol chiefs during her vice presidency.<\/p>\n<p>Harris&#8217;s vulnerability on immigration is crucial, especially as Americans have consistently ranked immigration as the top issue leading up to the election. For the first time in nearly two decades, a majority of Americans (55 percent) support reducing immigration levels, up from nearly 41 percent last year, with close to two-thirds favoring mass deportations of illegal immigrants. The gap between the Biden-Harris administration&#8217;s immigration policies (which included a catch-and-release protocol allowing up to 75 percent of illegal aliens to remain in the U.S.) and the policies most Americans support is significant.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, Trump has consistently opposed illegal immigration, and his administration was notably more effective in securing the border, which aligns with what Americans desire. Even if Harris was never officially designated as border czar, she has made it clear that her approach to the border crisis as a potential future president would likely mirror or worsen the Biden-Harris administration&#8217;s policies. This is a reality that the media is striving to obscure. <\/p>\n<p>Joshua Monnington is an assistant editor at The Federalist. 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