Harris defends Biden’s immigration record, promises tougher action if elected

Vice President Kamala Harris, campaigning for the presidency, defended the Biden administration’s handling of illegal immigration during a recent interview on Fox News’ Special Report with Bret Baier. Addressing voter concerns about the influx of migrants, she acknowledged, “We have a broken immigration system that needs to be repaired.”

Harris highlighted that one of the administration’s first legislative efforts was the introduction of the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021, which sought to overhaul the immigration system. “Within practically hours of taking the oath, the first bill we offered to Congress was a bill to fix our immigration system,” she emphasized, though the bill ultimately failed to pass.

The Vice President stressed the Biden administration’s efforts to improve asylum processing, increase penalties for illegal crossings, and target transnational criminal networks involved in trafficking. “We have worked on what is needed to be done on points of entry between borders, prosecuting transnational criminals,” she said.

However, Harris faced tougher questions on two controversial topics: her previous calls for offering illegal immigrants access to subsidized tuition and driver’s licenses, as well as claims by Donald Trump that taxpayer money had been used for gender transition surgeries for detained migrants. When pressed, Harris sidestepped the latter accusation, simply stating, “We must support and enforce federal law, and that’s what we’ll do.”

Despite Baier’s assertion that over 1.7 million migrants have evaded Border Patrol under the current administration, Harris declined to confirm those numbers, pivoting instead to her past as Attorney General of California, a border state. “I have spent a significant part of my career going after people who present a threat to the safety of American people and cross our border illegally,” she stated.

Harris, running to become the first woman and person of color elected to the presidency, vowed to offer real solutions rather than political posturing, saying, “What the American people want are solutions and a president… actually focused on fixing it.” With the U.S. election less than 20 days away, immigration remains a central issue, and the spotlight on Harris’s policies continues to intensify.