It seems like only yesterday Vice President Kamala Harris stepped into the ring to seek her party’s nomination and run against former President Donald Trump this November in the general election, and the hits keep coming fast and furious.
Almost immediately, she was attacked for her record on the border.
“Joe Biden has now endorsed and fully supports his ‘Borders Czar’ Kamala Harris to be the Democrat candidate for president,” Gov. Greg Abbott posted on X. “I think I will need to triple the border wall, razor wire barriers and National Guard on the border.”
“Kamala had one job,” Nikki Haley said at the Republican National Convention. “One job. And that was to fix the border. Now imagine her in charge of the entire country.”
Perhaps the most memorable line from Harris about the border was in early June 2021, when NBC News’ Lester Holt interviewed her during her trip to Guatemala. When she repeatedly said, “We’ve been to the border,” Holt objected, saying, “You haven’t been to the border,” emphasizing that Harris personally had not been to see what was happening at the border.
Harris responded by saying, “And I haven’t been to Europe. I mean, I don’t understand the point that you’re making.”
She eventually did visit the border near El Paso a few weeks later, on June 25, 2021. However, that trip was reportedly carefully choreographed, the details of which are only now coming to light.
The New York Post has an exclusive report on how Federal agents were instructed to clear the streets of migrants and put on a “show” for Harris during her one and only trip to the border. Here’s the start of the story:
When Vice President Kamala Harris made her first and only trip to the US-Mexico border, federal agents on the frontlines were instructed to completely sanitize the area to hide the true severity of the crisis from cameras, sources told The Post — even going so far as braiding the hair of unaccompanied minors.
Harris, whose first big job as the nation’s no. 2 executive was to control the flow of migrants across the southern border, went to the border near El Paso, Texas, on June 25, 2021 after pressure from Republicans over her handling of the crisis.
Border Patrol sources said that agents on the ground were told to start moving migrants out of holding facilities to put on a “show” for Harris.
“They rented out a ton of hotels and we spent hours moving out bodies. The kids that remained we had to braid their hair,” one agent said, adding that they “made jokes about how the building was more secure than the whole border was.”
“She had zero interest in really seeing anything. It was rushed,” a former official, who was also present during the trip, said.