JD Vance Assails Kamala Harris During Visit To The Southern Border: 'That Is A Disgrace'

4 months ago

During a visit to the southern border on Thursday in Arizona, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) spoke about border security under the Biden administration.

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00:00Bob thanks so much and thanks to all of you guys for doing what you do

00:03It's hard to believe until you see it with your own eyes

00:06Just how bad the policies of the Kamala Harris administration have been when it comes to the southern border

00:12They started their administration Kamala Harris came into office making promises

00:16And she kept those promises to open the American southern border. They stopped deportations on day one

00:23They stopped construction of the border wall on day one

00:26We see the border wall sitting here ready to be completed behind us and that can't happen because of Kamala Harris's administration

00:32They reinstated catch-and-release and they stopped remain in Mexico

00:37So all these asylum claimants who come to our border

00:40They can now get released into our country because they're not forced to stay in Mexico while we adjudicate their asylum claims

00:47And we have to remember that as terrible and idiotic as these policies were they cause real human beings

00:55Beings to suffer a lot of you know my story and I have been a little kid

01:02Waiting at the bedside of his mother

01:05angry that his mom took something that she shouldn't have taken but praying to God, please Jesus let her wake up and

01:12The unfortunate truth is because of the poison that Kamala Harris has let come into this country

01:18There are a lot of those prayers that won't be answered

01:20There are a lot of parents that won't wake up because when you take fentanyl you don't wake up it takes your life

01:26So there are a lot of kids out there who have been deprived of second chances with their moms and dads

01:31There are a lot of moms and dads out there who will never see their kids walk down the aisle

01:35Because of what Kamala Harris has unleashed at this border

01:39The human toll of this is the thing that we cannot forget

01:42We have got kids who can't learn in schools because their kids have been overwhelmed with migrant children who shouldn't be there

01:49We've got hospitals where the wait times have exploded because illegal aliens are standing in front of the line of American citizens

01:56the media needs to tell the truth and Kamala Harris needs to change course on this crazy border nuts border mess or

02:04The the people who suffer the most are the people who can least afford to suffer

02:09now I've heard so many stories just in the last half hour of how these guys have failed the American people and

02:17Especially failed our children

02:18But I want to introduce some of the people who are fighting this day in and day out and some of them

02:24I'm sure can tell you some stories and it's it's just unbelievable

02:28It is unbelievable what we're letting happen at this southern border and we're letting it happen because Kamala Harris

02:34Refuses to do her job what President Trump and I promise to the American people is very simple

02:41This is not rocket science. It is not hard to secure the southern border

02:45You just have to re-implement some common-sense policies. You've got to re-implement remain in Mexico. You've got to stop catch-and-release

02:52you've got to force the asylum seekers to stay in Mexico while their claims are being adjudicated and

02:57you've got to finish this border wall and re-implement deportations if people can come into this country and

03:04They know they're never going to be deported you effectively have an open border. That's what Kamala Harris promised

03:09That's what Kamala Harris did and Donald Trump and I promise to do exactly the opposite

03:14So first, of course, we saw a great sheriff of Cochise County Bob Watkins

03:19Thank you for doing what you do. And thanks for answering some of my questions

03:21I want to introduce John Ladd who is a fourth-generation rancher who's told me things today

03:27It's just hard to believe you have people coming into his ranch

03:31Chasing his cattle stealing his equipment destroying his property and his own government refuses to stop it John

03:37I'm sorry as a United States senator

03:39I'm ashamed at what this Harris administration has done and I promise it's gonna get better in about six months. Thank you, John. I

03:47want to talk about

03:49Paul Perez who is at the front line of pushing back against this crazy border policy

03:55if you think about it, have we ever had an

03:58American border policy that is so at odds with the people who are actually doing it

04:04You talk to these Border Patrol agents and they are enraged that the Harris administration won't let them do their job

04:09They just want to keep people safe

04:11They need a president who lets them do that

04:13So Paul if you want to say a few words, I think the media would love to hear from you

04:21So under President Trump we had a secure border

04:25We have the ability the knowledge and the will to secure this border

04:31All we need is somebody like President Trump and Senator Vance to come into and let us do our job

04:39We can secure this border

04:41President Trump

04:43Showed the American people that he can secure the border all

04:47Borders are Harris has shown is that they can create chaos on this border

04:53Our communities are suffering people are overdosing from fentanyl. This can be stopped

04:58There is a playbook President Trump had it and he still has it they can make it happen

05:08Paul thank you. And thanks Brandon for being here. You're our Brandon. Thanks so much

05:12You guys are doing incredible work despite the fact you don't have the support of an administration

05:16I'm gonna close here in a second

05:18But I want to just point out that when the media lies about Kamala Harris being the borders are

05:23Here is what you're lying about

05:25You cannot have an effective border policy unless you have somebody who is coordinating all the different agencies of the u.s

05:32Federal government you need the State Department involved to send people back to their home countries

05:37You need the Department of Justice involved to prosecute these terrible drug crimes

05:41And of course you need DHS involved so that the Border Patrol is empowered to do their job

05:46Kamala Harris as borders are was asked to coordinate all these functions of government and she's done nothing

05:52Every time I asked these guys and I even I even asked, you know, Brandon Paul

05:57Let's play devil's advocate here. Tell me has Kamala Harris done anything you've asked her to do

06:03She is the borders are has your borders are done anything you've asked her to do and the answer is no

06:08They send letters they make phone calls

06:11They are begging the American president and vice president for leadership and their own borders are ignores them

06:18That is a scandal that is a disgrace and to every American watching this it will stop

06:23But only if you elect Donald J. Trump president in just a few months. God bless you guys. Thank you for being here

JD Vance Assails Kamala Harris During Visit To The Southern Border: 'That Is A Disgrace'

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