During a surreal interview with NBC’s Chuck Todd on Sunday, Vice President Kamala Harris insisted that our southern border is secure. West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, feeling more than a little betrayed by his Democratic colleagues at the moment, called that assessment “dead wrong” in remarks to Fox News’ Brett Baier on Tuesday evening.
Manchin said, “It’s wrong. She’s dead wrong on that. And I have said this. If we don’t secure it — I voted every time for the wall. But we need the wall and a lot more, technology, more agents.”
“The 2013 immigration bill was still the best piece of legislation I think that we have ever had before us,” he told Baier. “We couldn’t get it passed through the Republican House at that time because of some politics involved there.”
“And they — the amnesty, people were shouting the word amnesty,” he noted. “That piece of legislation would have corrected everything we have going wrong. But, for anybody — the vice president, president, anybody — to say our borders are secured, that is not accurate. I’ve been there. It’s wrong.”
Chuck Todd: “You’re confident this border is secure?”
Kamala Harris: “We have a secure border in that that is a priority for any nation.”pic.twitter.com/hpmpOdLijd
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) September 12, 2022
.@BretBaier: “Vice President Harris said this weekend the southern border is ‘secure.'”
Manchin: “It’s wrong. She’s dead wrong on that.” pic.twitter.com/O2IIJsNu0E
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) September 13, 2022
While many of us lost respect for Manchin after his abrupt decision to support the Inflation Reduction Act enabled its passage last month, we applaud him for his honesty.
In mid-August, with one and a half months still remaining in the current fiscal year, Customs and Border Protection reported there had been over two million migrant encounters at the border, according to Fox News.
During the previous fiscal year, there were over 1.7 million encounters, the report said. At this rate, if nothing is done to secure the border throughout the remainder of President Joe Biden’s term, the total could easily surpass 8 million.
Not only is this figure breathtaking, it’s dangerous.
An NPR/Ipsos poll released in late August found that more than 50 percent of those surveyed consider it “either completely or somewhat true that the U.S. is experiencing an invasion at the southern border.” The poll also showed that “half believe there is at least some truth to the view that migrants bringing fentanyl and other illegal drugs over the southern border are responsible for the increases of overdoses in the U.S.”
This pollster was clearly towing the party line. The report said these results “and others like them that were tested in this survey, shed light on how misleading information or politically charged rhetoric about immigration has taken root among a significant portion of the American public.”
With over 4.2M illegal immigrants crossing the border since Joe Biden took office, VP Kamala Harris claims “we have a secure border” and Senator @CortezMasto says “there’s no open borders.”
We need solutions, not more lies and refusals to acknowledge this deadly crisis. pic.twitter.com/RIMgMFeMq8
— Adam Paul Laxalt (@AdamLaxalt) September 12, 2022
Misleading information or politically charged rhetoric about immigration? Americans see the reality of the situation every day in the media. Even Chuck Todd seemed surprised by Harris’ claim that the border was secure.
It’s unlikely that Republicans will ever trust Manchin again after his role in facilitating passage of the needless and disingenuously named IRA. Still, it’s good to hear a Democrat speak the truth about the ongoing disaster at our southern border.
A previous version of this article appeared on The Western Journal.
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I don’t applaud him for anything. With Manchin, everything is for sale. The man has no moral compass. He belongs on a used car lot, washing cars.
Saying Kamala Harris is dead wrong, on one issue compares how much to turning the IRS into a bunch of storm troopers?
He would sell your birthright if he could. Maybe he just did, with that inflation reduction act. Imagine 85000 new IRS agents, with guns, with nothing to do, except pick our pockets. I can’t think of too many things worse than that.
Joe Manchin is the poster child of what is wrong in DC.
I echo Mr. Birwind’s comment. After Manchin sold the USA down the river by supporting another Biden/Obama tax and spend bill, nothing he utters should be considered true by anyone with 1/2 a brain. After he’s voted out of the senate, his next job should be a wind vane at the national weather service.
His next job should be a human urinal at a pervert club.
I completely agree with Mr. Berwind; Manchin struts around and pretends to support our country, but when the voting is done, he is nothing but a backstabber.
Even Manchin, sellout that he is, can recognize that the border is wide open to every bit of flotsam and jetsom and TERRORIST in this world. If he’s so aware, he’s in a position to do something to close the border; after all, he is a Senator in the United States Congress. Why not join those who are fighting to close the border. Oh, wait, he just talks and struts and betrays his country over and over. A pox on him and those like him, Graham, Romney, et.al.