Harris dodges border wall question, blames Trump despite record numbers on her watch

Vice President Kamala Harris connected Thursday dodged a question astir whether her medication would proceed the operation of a partition on the confederate border, arsenic amerciable migration and the borderline policies of the Biden medication proceed to fertile among the apical issues for voters.

Harris was speaking to reporters erstwhile she was asked astir the obstruction construction, which was brought up during a CNN municipality hallway gathering successful the plaything authorities of Pennsylvania Wednesday. 

"I volition archer you that my highest precedence is to enactment the resources into ensuring that our border is secure, which is wherefore I've been precise clear. I'm going to bring backmost up arsenic president that bipartisan borderline information measure and marque definite that it is brought to my table truthful I tin motion it into law," she said earlier criticizing erstwhile President Trump. 

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Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic statesmanlike nominee, speaks during a CNN municipality hallway successful Aston, Pa., Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024. (AP/Matt Rourke)

"The biggest contented that we person close present is that Donald Trump has stood successful the mode of what would person been a proven portion of the solution to the bigger problem, which is that we person a breached migration strategy successful America, and we request to hole it," Harris continued. 

Harris has repeatedly scorned Trump implicit his borderline policies, which resulted successful a crisp diminution successful amerciable migrant crossings into the United States. Trump ran successful 2016 connected a pledge to physique a borderline partition and have Mexico wage for it, but it ne'er did. 

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"How overmuch of that partition did helium build? I deliberation the past fig I saw was astir 2%," Harris said Wednesday. 

Harris was asked astatine the municipality hallway if she agreed to earmark $650 cardinal to proceed operation of the borderline wall, which Harris antecedently called "stupid."

"I pledge that I americium going to bring guardant that bipartisan measure to further fortify and unafraid our border. Yes, I am, and I'm going to enactment crossed the aisle to walk a broad measure that deals with a breached immigration system," she responded. 

On Thursday, Harris said Trump prefers to tally connected the occupation alternatively of fixing the migration system. 

"I mean to hole the occupation successful a mode that is conscionable astir applicable solutions that are wrong our arm's reach. If we person the committedness to bash it," she said without responding to the borderline partition question. 

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On the run way and successful media interviews, she has dodged questions astir the Biden administration's borderline policies that resulted successful record-high numbers of amerciable immigrants crossing into the U.S. and migrant crime, preferring to knock Trump and beforehand a 2021 measure arsenic grounds that Biden tried to fortify U.S. migration policies up of the migrant crisis.

That measure would person paved the mode to citizenship for millions of amerciable immigrants.