11 million illegals would have become citizens under bill that Kamala Harris promoted

Vice President Kamala Harris touted an migration measure from 2021 arsenic grounds that she and President Biden worked to fortify U.S. migration policies up of the migrant situation that has rocked the U.S. successful the past 3 and a fractional years. 

A reappraisal of the bill, however, shows it would person paved the mode to citizenship for millions of amerciable immigrants. 

"At the opening of our administration, wrong practically hours of taking the oath, the archetypal measure that we offered Congress – earlier we worked connected infrastructure, earlier the Inflation Reduction Act, earlier the Chips and Science Act, earlier the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act – the archetypal bill, practically wrong hours of taking the oath, was a measure to hole our migration system," Harris said erstwhile speaking with Fox News’ Bret Baier past week successful her archetypal interrogation with Fox News since Biden dropped retired of the statesmanlike contention successful July and Harris ascended to the apical of the Democratic ticket. 

"Yes, ma’am. It was called the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021," Baier responded, which Baier described arsenic "essentially a pathway to citizenship." 

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Fox News Channel's interrogation with Vice President Kamala Harris moderated by "Special Report" anchor Bret Baier drew a whopping 7.1 cardinal viewers, making it the most-watched interrogation of the 2024 predetermination season. (Fox News Channel)

"Exactly," Harris responded earlier Baier began to accidental that the measure "was fundamentally a pathway to citizenship."

Harris' effect came aft Baier grilled the VP connected the Biden-Harris medication reversing Trump borderline policies upon their inauguration successful 2021, including a Trump argumentation that required amerciable immigrants to beryllium detained portion awaiting asylum hearings. Baier asked Harris if she "regrets" terminating the Trump-era "Remain successful Mexico" argumentation successful airy of amerciable migrant males who person allegedly committed ghastly crimes specified arsenic execution successful the U.S. nether the administration. 

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One of the biggest questions during this statesmanlike predetermination rhythm is however a Harris medication would look antithetic from a Biden one. (Getty Images)

On Biden and Harris’ archetypal time successful bureau successful 2021, the president sent Congress a portion of authorities touted arsenic 1 that would "restore humanity and American values to our migration system."

The U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021 was ne'er enacted, dying successful Congress instead, and elaborate that successful summation to "modernizing" the U.S. migration system, it explicitly elaborate it would "provide pathways to citizenship & fortify labour protections."

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As Democrats successful Congress unveiled the measure successful February of that year, the White House estimated that up to 11 cardinal amerciable immigrants could gain citizenship done an eight-year plan, including those deported nether the Trump administration, Fox News Digital reported astatine the time. 

Immigrants enactment up astatine a distant Border Patrol processing halfway aft crossing the U.S.-Mexico borderline connected Dec. 7, 2023 successful Lukeville, Arizona. (John Moore/Getty Images)

"Applicants indispensable beryllium physically contiguous successful the United States connected oregon earlier January 1, 2021. The Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) whitethorn waive the beingness request for those deported connected oregon aft January 20, 2017 who were physically contiguous for astatine slightest 3 years anterior to removal for household unity and different humanitarian purposes. Lastly, the measure further recognizes America arsenic a federation of immigrants by changing the connection ‘alien’ to ‘noncitizen’ successful our migration laws," the White House’s information expanse for the measure stated.

Other items successful the measure included granting contiguous eligibility for greenish cards to farmworkers, Temporary Protected Status (TPS) recipients and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients. It would person besides opened up ineligible pathways to migration by expanding the arguable greenish paper lottery from 55,000 a twelvemonth to 80,000 a twelvemonth and exempting children and spouses from visa headdress numbers. 

Conservatives successful Congress slammed the authorities arsenic an amnesty measure that would not lone neglect to bolster migration laws, but promote radical to illegally transverse into the U.S. 

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Migrants hold successful enactment to beryllium processed by the Border Patrol aft crossing the Rio Grande into El Paso, Texas. (Herika Martinez/AFP via Getty Images)

​​Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., called it a "massive connection for broad amnesty that would gut enforcement of American laws portion creating immense caller incentives for radical to unreserved present illegally astatine the aforesaid time." Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., who was portion of the 2013 "Gang of Eight," brushed the authorities disconnected arsenic a non-starter.

Harris was grilled astir her migration policies during her interrogation with Baier, often dodging the questions by responding with criticisms of erstwhile President Trump. 

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Baier kicked disconnected the interrogation Wednesday by asking Harris however galore amerciable immigrants were released by the Biden medication into the country. 

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks astir the sidesplitting of Hamas person Yahya Sinwar astatine the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, connected Oct. 17, 2024. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

"Well, I'm gladsome you raised the contented of immigration, due to the fact that I hold with you," Harris responded. "It is simply a taxable of treatment that radical privation to rightly have. And you cognize what I'm going to speech about-"

"But conscionable a number," Baier pressed. "Do you deliberation it's 1 million? Three million?"

"Bret, let's conscionable get to the point, OK? The constituent is that we person a breached migration strategy that needs to beryllium repaired," Harris said, earlier Baier interjected that the Department of Homeland Security estimates 6 cardinal amerciable immigrants person been released successful the U.S. since the Biden-Harris administration. 

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Immigration, the economy, wellness attraction and termination are among apical elector concerns this predetermination cycle. Fox News Power Rankings published earlier this period recovered Trump has a wide vantage connected immigration, starring Harris by 11 points. 

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Fox News Digital's Adam Shaw contributed to this report.