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FIRST ON FOX: The head of immigration enforcement beneath former President Trump is looking for to sound the alarm about Vice President Kamala Harris’ “open borders” insurance policies and the reality concerning the disaster on the southern border — simply as Harris is claiming she is the suitable candidate to deal with the border.
Tom Homan, a Fox News contributor who beforehand served as appearing director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) beneath former President Trump, is getting ready to have interaction in a collection of digital city halls together with his nonprofit, Border911 Inc.
He intends for the city halls to convey consciousness to the info concerning the penalties of the continued disaster on the southern border, together with intercourse trafficking and the smuggling of fentanyl into the U.S.
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As a part of that, Homan is difficult the narrative by Harris that she is hard on border safety. A latest advert by Harris stated that “fixing the border is hard, so is Kamala Harris.”
Border911 Inc., which is led by consultants on border and nationwide safety from each Republican and Democratic administrations, is releasing a video that as a substitute factors to previous feedback by Harris that it says battle with that narrative.
They embrace her saying she was open to “ranging from scratch” with ICE, decriminalizing unlawful crossings, saying she supported “sanctuary” metropolis legal guidelines and evaluating ICE to the Ku Klux Klan as a senator.
“Kamala Harris desires everybody to consider she’s some border hawk now. But going all the best way again to her days as DA in San Francisco, her statements and insurance policies make it clear the place she stands,” Homan, who served beneath a number of administrations, advised Fox News Digital. “The reality is, she’s an open borders radical and, together with Joe Biden, she’s personally answerable for the present disaster.”
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Republicans and the Trump marketing campaign have zeroed in on the border, together with Harris’ position in tackling root causes of migration. They have linked the historic highs seen through the border disaster to the insurance policies of the Biden-Harris administration, together with the ending of Trump-era insurance policies they see as having efficiently introduced the border beneath management.
Conservatives have sought to color Harris as a radical on unlawful immigration, pointing to most of the identical remarks featured within the video, simply because the Harris marketing campaign has sought to current her as the suitable candidate for border safety.
A Harris marketing campaign adviser advised Fox News final month that Harris’ positions have been “formed by three years of efficient governance as a part of the Biden-Harris administration.”
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks on the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute management convention in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Her marketing campaign stated she believes unlawful border crossings are unlawful and helps “persevering with to make sure ample assets to implement our legal guidelines and prioritize detention and removing for people who pose threats to public security and nationwide safety, in addition to guarantee compliance with immigration proceedings and choices, together with removing.”
More broadly, it has pointed to her backing of the bipartisan Senate package deal that emerged from negotiations within the chamber earlier this 12 months, which will increase funding for the border, together with ICE mattress area and a mechanism to restrict asylum entries into the U.S. Conservatives stated that invoice would solely serve to codify excessive ranges of unlawful immigration.
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“The solely ‘plan’ Donald Trump has to safe our border is ripping moms from their youngsters and some xenophobic placards on the Republican National Convention. He tanked the bipartisan border safety deal as a result of, for Donald Trump, this has by no means been about options, simply working on an issue,” Harris-Walz marketing campaign spokesperson Kevin Munoz stated in a press release.
“Like all the things with Donald Trump, it’s by no means been about serving to the nation, it is solely about serving to himself. There’s just one candidate on this race who will battle for bipartisan options to strengthen border safety, and that’s Vice President Harris,” he stated.
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Homan, nonetheless, says he isn’t making an attempt to inform voters who they need to decide in November, simply to current the info.
“We wish to present the American folks the reality to allow them to make their very own choices,” he advised Fox News Digital.
