FIRST ON FOX: Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., returned fireplace at Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday after she accused Republicans of “playing politics” with the border crisis.
“Vice President Harris has had three years to secure the border and stop the open flow of illegal immigrants into our country,” Johnson informed Fox Information Digital.
“Yet, when asked about her solutions, she recommended that Congress grant mass amnesty and spend taxpayer dollars to process – not stop – more illegals. Her ‘solution’ is to spend billions of additional taxpayer dollars and incentivize the lawlessness and chaos.”
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Speaker Mike Johnson, proper, goes after Vice President Kamala Harris, left, after she accused Republicans of taking part in politics with the border. (Getty Pictures)
He was responding to a CNN interview Harris gave on Monday when she urged negotiators engaged on a border security and immigration deal in Congress to deal with “solutions.” When discussing what these options could possibly be, she urged “meaningful” pathways to citizenship for unlawful immigrants and asylum-seekers in addition to “putting resources” towards serving to “process people effectively.”
“This answer from President Biden’s ‘border czar’ is exactly why the administration can’t be trusted to solve the catastrophe they, themselves, created,” Johnson mentioned. “Their idea is to attract millions more aliens, cause more pain, and further surrender America’s national and economic security.”
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Early on within the Biden administration, Harris was given the duty of discovering long-term options to the worsening border disaster, particularly the basis causes of mass migration from Central America.
However she has not been seen with Senate and White Home negotiators on Capitol Hill in current weeks as they work to discover a bipartisan compromise.
Immigrants from Venezuela stroll in the direction of a U.S. Border Patrol transit middle after crossing the Rio Grande into america on January 8, 2024, in Eagle Cross, Texas. ((Picture by John Moore/Getty Pictures))
Harris declined to immediately talk about the present state of these talks. However when requested about why border safety reform has proved evasive for Washington for thus a few years, she admitted the immigration system is ‘broken’ and identified one of many Biden administration’s first payments despatched to Congress “included what we must do to create a pathway to citizenship and to put the resources that are needed into the border.”
“But sadly, people on the other side of the aisle have been playing politics with this issue,” she mentioned.
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Pressed about these options, she mentioned, “The solutions include putting resources at the border to do what we can to process people effectively, and putting in place laws that actually allow for a…meaningful pathway to citizenship.”
“I will tell you that the negotiations that are happening right now, I hope are going to be directed at solutions that are genuinely focused on fixing the problem,” Harris mentioned.
A US Customs and Border Safety Border Patrol agent walks to a car alongside the border wall on the US-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas, on Might 10, 2023. (PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
In the meantime, as these talks proceed, Johnson and his Home GOP convention have been steadfast in pushing for stricter border security measures than the Senate bipartisan talks are more likely to produce.
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Johnson has thus far advocated for insurance policies just like H.R.2, the border invoice that Home Republicans handed in Might, which embrace extreme restrictions on asylum and would reimpose Trump administration-era insurance policies like Stay In Mexico. However the Democrats who management the White Home and Senate have panned the invoice as a “nonstarter.”
The variety of folks encountered on the border between U.S. and Mexico final month is anticipated to have exceeded 300,000, an all-time historic excessive.
Fox Information Digital reached out to the vp’s workplace for remark.
