X (formerly Twitter) owner, Tesla and SpaceX CEO, Trump backer, and online provocateur Elon Musk recently took to his X platform to go after Vice President Kamala Harris on the state of the US-Mexico border, calling her out for trying to look tough on border security even as the Border Patrol union hammers her for her border stance.
As background, Harris has tried to embrace the border as an issue as of late and present herself as the tough on border security candidate who will use practical policies to ensure that the border is protected and illegal immigrants are treated in a humane way. Ignored in all that is how the border situation has gone under the Biden-Harris Administration.
In a recent speech in Douglas, for example, a small town along the border that she visited during her trip to the area, Kamala attacked Trump for torpedoing the ridiculous border deal pushed by Democrats and a few RINOs. She said, “It was the strongest border security bill we have seen in decades. It was endorsed by the Border Patrol union. And it should be in effect today, producing results in real time, right now, for our country.”
She continued, on the same note, “But Donald Trump tanked it. He picked up the phone and called some friends in Congress and said, ‘Stop the bill.’ He prefers to run on a problem instead of fixing a problem. And the American people deserve a president who cares more about border security than playing political games and their personal political future.”
All of that talk set off the Border Patrol Union. It, posting about the situation on X, wrote, “Vice president Harris has ignored the border problem she created for over three years. She goes down there for 20 minutes for a photo op and decides to repeat some of the things the NPBC has said before. But again, where has she been the last 3 1/2 years?”
Elon Musk quote-tweeted that post from the Border Patrol Union and noted that, when it comes to Kamala’s stance on the border and what has happened to the border under the Biden-Harris Administration, the Border Patrol seems like the right group to look to. He said, “You know who we could ask about whether Kamala “secured the border”? The Border Patrol.”
Replying to Elon, a commenter called out what has happened under the Biden-Harris Administration, saying, “Kamala Harris’ 20-minute border photo op can’t hide her 3-year absence and failed border policies. Border Patrol knows the truth: – 10 million inadmissible alien encounters – 2 million known gotaways – 1.25 million port of entry encounters (FY24) – 36,000 Chinese nationals apprehended since Oct 2023. Trump secured borders, Harris didn’t.”
Watch Kamala at the border here:
The Border Patrol Union has been a consistent critic of President Biden, where the organization has blamed his administration for the millions of illegal immigrants that have poured into the country over the past few years. The union has claimed that Biden has even encouraged illegal immigration, a sharp contrast from Trump’s former border security agenda.
It said, “Wasn’t it Biden who encouraged people from all over the world to ‘surge the border’? Didn’t Biden, immediately void all the successful Trump EO’s that were keeping our border under control? Didn’t he publicly and viciously accuse BP agents of criminal assault, then told the world ‘those people will pay’, and the entire thing was made up BS? Has he apologized or taken responsibility for any of it, or asked forgiveness from the victims of some of the millions of illegal aliens he imported into this country?”
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