This past Friday Kamala Harris made a rare appearance at the border wall near Tucson. Harris proposed fake restrictions that would have no effect on the invasion of illegal aliens that she invited, facilitated, and then lied about during her years in office as vice president in the incumbent administration. The video below compiled by the Daily Caller includes clips from Harris’s Meet the Press interview in September 2022 (transcript here). The complete and utter farce of a pretense she serves up now is the flip side of the pretense she served up then.
Kamala was reportedly wearing a $62,000 Tiffany necklace around her neck during her visit to the border. It seemed a tad anomalous. Is it “sexist” to point it out? Hey, this is show business.
It reminded me of the story I heard about former Nixon administration Treasury secretary John Connally in the 1970s. Connally was the defendant in the last major case brought by the Watergate special counsel. I was told that Connally had been advised by his defense counsel not to wear his $300 suits (more than $2,000 today) to court in Washington. According to my source, he replied: “I’d rather fry.” In the event, he was acquitted.
Around the time that Harris made her appearance at the border last week, Republican Rep. Tony Gonzalez released the September 25 letter he had received from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The letter is posted online here. Please pass it on.
The letter sets forth data showing that, as of July 21, 2024, nearly 650,000 criminal illegal aliens are on ICE’s Non-Detained Docket (NDD). Those on the NDD have been “encountered” by Customs and Border Patrol, turned over to ICE, had their criminal history documented, and then released into the United States. As Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green puts it, they are “roaming free in communities throughout the United States.”
The letter broke down the data — the numbers include both convicted criminals and those with pending charges — with highlights as follows:
Homicide: 14,944
Sexual Assault: 20,061
Assault: 105,146
Burglary/Larceny/Robbery: 60,268
Traffic Offenses: 126,343
Weapon Offenses: 16,820
Kidnapping: 3,372
Commercialized Sexual Offenses: 3,971
As Emily Jashinsky pointed out in her column on the data: “Those numbers do not include ‘known gotaways,’ let along unknown gotaways who are not even noticed by law enforcement.”
Returning to Rep. Green’s statement on the letter:
The number of criminal aliens crossing illegally under Biden and Harris’ leadership is astounding. From FY21 through FY24 year-to-date, the Border Patrol recorded more than 53,000 arrests of illegal aliens with criminal backgrounds, approximately 30,000 more such arrests than FY17-20. By October 2023, the Border Patrol was apprehending more than 47 illegal aliens per day with “serious criminal histories.”
As I say, this is an invasion Harris has invited, facilitated, and lied about. Speaking colloquially, you might say it’s criminal.
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