Harris stumbles on the border when pressed on illegal immigration: 'Is a border wall stupid?'

Vice President Kamala Harris stumbled done the Biden-Harris administration's borderline and migration policies erstwhile pressed astir the borderline situation during a CNN municipality hallway moderated by Anderson Cooper. 

"Let's speech astir this compromise measure that you privation to walk if you are elected. You said that's going to beryllium a priority. It includes $650 cardinal successful backing for the borderline wall. That's thing Republicans wanted that was portion of the compromise. Under Donald Trump, you criticized the partition much than 50 times. You called it ‘stupid, useless, and a medieval vanity project.’ Is a borderline partition stupid?," Cooper asked Harris Wednesday. 

"Let's talk astir Donald Trump on that borderline wall," Harris said portion laughing. "So remember, Donald Trump said Mexico would wage for it. Come on, they didn't. How overmuch of that partition did helium build? I deliberation the past fig I saw was astir 2%. And past erstwhile it came clip for him to bash a photograph op, you know, wherever helium did it? In the portion of the partition that President Obama built."

"But you agreed to a measure that would earmark $650 cardinal to proceed gathering that," Cooper pressed. 

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ASTON, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 23: Democratic statesmanlike candidate, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks arsenic CNN moderator Anderson Cooper looks connected during a Presidential Town Hall lawsuit astatine Sun Center Studios connected October 23, 2024 successful Aston, Pennsylvania. With little than 2 weeks to Election Day, Harris spent the time successful Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and made a sojourn to Famous 4th Street Delicatessen to greet supporters. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) (Getty Images)

"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 migration system," Harris responded. 

"We request a president who is grounded successful communal consciousness and applicable outcomes, like, let's conscionable hole this thing. Let's conscionable hole it. Why is determination immoderate ideological position connected this? Let's conscionable hole the problem," she continued.  

Vice President Kamala Harris joined CNN for a municipality hallway lawsuit Wednesday evening, speaking to Pennsylvania voters extracurricular of Philadelphia. The municipality hallway lawsuit kicked disconnected astatine 9 p.m. connected Wednesday from Chester Township, which is located little than 20 miles extracurricular of Philadelphia. 

Cooper asked Harris earlier successful the municipality hallway to explicate wherefore just weeks earlier the archetypal statesmanlike statement with President Biden was inactive successful the contention this summer, the medication instituted enforcement actions that curbed amerciable borderline crossings and had not issued specified orders sooner. 

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ASTON, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 23: Democratic statesmanlike candidate, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a CNN Presidential Town Hall astatine Sun Center Studios connected October 23, 2024 successful Aston, Pennsylvania. With little than 2 weeks to Election Day, Harris spent the time successful Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and made a sojourn to Famous 4th Street Delicatessen to greet supporters. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) (Getty Images)

"You're precisely right, Anderson. And arsenic of today, we person chopped the travel of migration by implicit half. In fact, the numbers I saw astir recently, amerciable immigration," Harris told Cooper. 

"If it was that casual without enforcement action, wherefore not bash it successful 2022, 2023?" Cooper pressed. 

"Because we were moving with Congress and hoping that really we could person a agelong word hole to the occupation alternatively of a short-term fix," Harris responded. 

Border Patrol picks up a radical of asylum seekers from an assistance campy astatine the US-Mexico borderline adjacent Sasabe, Arizona, US, connected Wednesday, March 13, 2024. During the archetypal 4 months of fiscal twelvemonth 2024, Border Patrol recorded much than 250,000 migrant apprehensions successful the Tucson assemblage successful Arizona, the astir of immoderate portion patrolled by the agency, according to national authorities statistics, reports CBS. Photographer: Justin Hamel/Bloomberg via Getty Images (Justin Hamel/Getty Images)

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"You couldn't person done 1 and some astatine the aforesaid time," Cooper noted. 

Cooper went connected to inquire Harris if she wished she had "done those enforcement orders successful 2022, 2023," sparking Harris to accidental she believes the medication "did the close thing." 

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"I deliberation we did the close thing. And but the champion happening that tin hap for the American people, is that we person bipartisan enactment happening. And I pledge to you, that I volition enactment crossed the aisle to hole this longstanding problem. I deliberation the American radical are demanding it, connected some sides of the aisle," she responded. 

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