Ira Mehlman, of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, says the results “speak for themselves” three years after President Joe Biden announced a major role for his vice president during a joint White House press conference.
“Since she was tapped for the job back in March of 2021,” Mehlman says, “we've had millions and millions of people come into the United States illegally.”
An estimated 10 million illegal aliens have entered the U.S. during Biden’s term. That happened after foreigners around the world watched him publicly reverse dozens of strict immigration polices signed by his “xenophobic” predecessor, President Donald Trump.
Biden signed those executive orders – 94 of them in all according to Republicans – in January of 2021 then he sat down with Harris just two months later to put her in charge of the border he had opened.
“There’s about five other major things she’s handling,” Biden told reporters that day, “but I’ve asked her, the VP, today — because she’s the most qualified person to do it — to lead our efforts with Mexico and the Northern Triangle and the countries that help — are going to need help in stemming the movement of so many folks, stemming the migration to our southern border.”
Harris never got to work “stemming" the record-breaking flow of illegal aliens, such as bringing back Trump’s immigration policies, but said she planned to examine the “root causes” of immigrants heading to the U.S. from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.
As it turned out, one of the "root causes" is the Biden administration itself beginning with Biden's liberal executive orders.
"President-elect Biden will sign an Executive Order revoking a Trump Executive Order that directed harsh and extreme immigration enforcement," reads a White House "fact sheet" on the day of Biden's inauguration.
According to Mehlman, the Democratic Party’s new presidential nominee deserves to be criticized for a long liberal record on illegal immigration.
“Going back, she has made statements to the effect that illegal immigration isn't a crime in the first place,” he says. “You look at her record in the Senate: she supported bills for amnesty. She supported bills to enrich the NGO's that bring people into the country and settle them here in the United States. She has opposed any meaningful immigration enforcement measures.”
