Social media users mocked Politico this weekend after the outlet published a piece claiming that Vice President Kamala Harris would be able to implement tougher border policies as president because of her past as California attorney general.
The article about Harris addressing the issue was not taken seriously by X users, who recalled that the current Biden/Harris administration has seen some of the highest numbers of illegal southern border crossings in US history.
“Propaganda garbage,” conservative blogger Mike LaChance posted about the article, which was published Saturday.
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A new Politico report says President Harris’ tough border policy will be informed by tough prosecutors. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)
Written by Politico reporter Blake Jones, the piece details Harris’ new and tough policy proposals on how he would handle the southern border if he becomes president, having been influenced by “his” “playbook” that he worked on earlier in his career.
Jones wrote, “Harris’ oath to fight for border security has color in his run for attorney general of California in 2010, when he just defeated a Republican opponent who had the support of the state’s police chief and prosecutor.”
The author recounts some of his policies at the time, stating, “Harris, a former prosecutor himself, decided to crack down on transnational gangs that smuggle drugs and people across the US-Mexico border. He developed a task force dedicated to cross-border criminality border — during the Great Recession, when the country cut budgets and eliminated programs — and encouraged greater intelligence sharing with Mexican authorities that officials say resulted in arrests years later.
As the piece notes, implementing the policy is the experience Harris has for the new border policy, which appears to be tougher than the current administration’s policy on the border.
Fox News Digital reached out to the Harris campaign for comment, but did not immediately receive a response.
Harris’ new 2024 ad stated his commitment to “fixing the border”, attracting critics who want to highlight it as one of his weaknesses after the Biden administration saw record levels of illegal border crossings, especially after the vice president. put in charge of solving the “root causes” of illegal immigration.
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Migrants mostly from Central America wait in line to cross the border at the Gateway International Bridge to the US from Matamoros, Mexico, to Brownsville, Texas, on June 4, 2024. ((Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP) (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP via Getty Images))
All aware of the discrepancy between the Biden/Harris record and Kamala’s campaign proposal, user X blasted the piece.
Media Research Center analyst Jorge Bonilla said, “Regime Media is gonna Regime Media.”
National Review senior writer Charles Cooke commented, “Unreal.”
Washington Free Beacon Joe Gabriel Simonson sent, “Once again, this story is for Democrats against other Democrats about. No one in the entire editorial process here thought this piece for anyone who has voted Republican in the last eight years.”
New York City Councilwoman Vickie Paladino scorched the article’s statements, writing, “Yes, Kamala ‘learned a lesson about the border’ early in her career: If you open the border and provide unlimited welfare, you can turn the country permanently blue. The only lesson she learned in California, and so does every other Democrat.
Conservative commentator David Giglio asked, “Is this a joke?”
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