Vice President Kamala Harris made her first stop to the southern border on Friday.Â
Francisco Morales, an attorney and second vice chair of the Nevada Democratic Party, blames congressional Republicans for blocking a bipartisan bill in May.
"Look, there was a bipartisan bill earlier this year that would have added more agents to the southern border, more ICE agents, Border Patrol agents, and USCIS agents to be able to process and weed through these asylum claims," said Morales. "The bill would have also given the president the authority to shut down the border when a certain number of encounters was reached."
Morales says that Biden's border bill, which was supported by House GOP leader Mitch McConnell, was the bill that would address the issue head on.
He says that Republicans - at the request of former President Donald Trump - killed the bill.
The Hispanic Deputy Media Director for the Trump campaign, Vianca Rodriguez, stated that immigration was under control during the Trump administration. She argued that the Biden-Harris administration repealed effective policies, such as "Stay in Mexico." Additionally, President Biden attempted to halt the allocation of $1.3 billion for the construction of the border wall and barriers, which was deemed a violation of Congressional Law and was not permitted.
According to Rodriguez, "We have a crisis that she's failed on, that Joe Biden has failed on because she has repealed most of the executive orders that were already implemented that were aimed at keeping illegal immigration under control."
You can check out the full report with both Morales and Rodriguez below:
Vice President Kamala Harris made her first stop to the southern border on Friday. Now immigration experts from both campaign pitch plans for border control.
