Waukesha Times

Wisconsin State Sen. Julian Bradley (R-28) said Vice President Kamala Harris (D) "failed miserably" in her duties of securing the American border and maintaining border security. 

"The Biden administration tasked Vice President Kamala Harris with securing the U.S.-Mexico Border. She failed miserably," Bradley, whose district includes portions of Waukesha County, told Waukesha Times. 

"Under Harris's oversight, the U.S. adopted policies that left the border wide open, enabling millions of illegal immigrants to pour into our country and put a strain on law enforcement, municipal services, and housing markets in places like Whitewater where the police chief requested help from the Biden/Harris administration earlier this year," Bradley said. 

Harris, endorsed by outgoing President Joe Biden (D) to replace him as presidential candidate, said in 2017 that “undocumented immigrants” are not criminals.

“As California’s Attorney General, I know what a crime looks like,” then-U.S. Sen. Harris (R-Calif.) posted on X. “Let me tell you that an undocumented immigrant is not a criminal.”

Biden announced on March 24, 2021 his appointment of Harris “to lead efforts to stamp migration across the U.S.-Mexico border.”

"This new surge we’re dealing with now started with the last administration, but it’s our responsibility to deal with it humanely and to stop what’s happening," said Biden. "This increase has been consequential, but the vice president’s agreed – among the multiple other things I have her leading and I appreciate it – agreed to lead our diplomatic effort and work with those nations to accept the returnees and enhance migration enforcement at their borders."

Since Harris’ appointment, the “surge” of illegal aliens crossing the U.S.-Mexico border has grown worse.

During fiscal year 2024 to date, CBP has arrested 35,178 illegal aliens who have previous criminal convictions or who are wanted by law enforcement.

13.828 of these arrests have been made by the U.S. Border Patrol, and 21,350 of these arrests have been made by the CBP’s Office of Field Operations. The CBP’s 2024 fiscal year runs from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2024.

“Kamala Harris fully owns the Biden-Harris-Mayorkas failure at the border," Steve Cortes, president of the League of American Workers, told Grand Canyon Times. "If anything, as shown by her illogical quotes about criminal trespassers into America, Kamala is even more radical than Joe.”

Biden’s appointment of Harris to head his administration’s border effort came almost exactly two months after Biden signed a "Proclamation on the Termination Of Emergency With Respect To The Southern Border Of The United States And Redirection Of Funds Diverted To Border Wall Construction."

This order, signed on Biden’s very first day in office, said the Trump Administration's declaration of a national emergency at the southern border was "unwarranted" and paused all funds for the construction of the U.S-Mexico border wall begun under President Trump.

70% of Wisconsin voters think the federal government is weak at securing the U.S. borders, according to results of an April poll of Wisconsin voters released by the League of American Workers. 

The poll also found that 58% of Wisconsin voters think the Biden-Harris Administration policies are to blame for drug overdose deaths in the Badger State, many of which are a result of the drug fentanyl, which is being smuggled into the U.S. from Mexico. 

"As we continue dealing with the fatal fentanyl epidemic that's claiming lives in communities all over our nation, it's critical that we secure the southern border and shut down the primary path that cartels use to get fentanyl into the United States," said Bradley. "The crisis at the southern border is hurting American families and Kamala Harris must be held accountable for this in November."