Harris dodges border wall question, blames Trump despite record numbers on her watch

Vice President Kamala Harris connected Thursday dodged a mobility astir whether her management would proceed nan building of a wall on nan confederate border, arsenic forbidden migration and nan separator policies of nan Biden management proceed to rank among nan apical issues for voters.

Harris was speaking to reporters erstwhile she was asked astir nan obstruction construction, which was brought up during a CNN municipality hallway gathering successful nan plaything authorities of Pennsylvania Wednesday. 

"I will show you that my highest privilege is to put nan resources into ensuring that our border is secure, which is why I've been very clear. I'm going to bring backmost up arsenic president that bipartisan separator information measure and make judge that it is brought to my table truthful I tin motion it into law," she said earlier criticizing erstwhile President Trump. 

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Vice President Kamala Harris, nan Democratic statesmanlike nominee, speaks during a CNN municipality hallway successful Aston, Pa., Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024. (AP/Matt Rourke)

"The biggest rumor that we person correct now is that Donald Trump has stood successful nan measurement of what would person been a proven portion of nan solution to nan bigger problem, which is that we person a surgery migration strategy successful America, and we request to hole it," Harris continued. 

Harris has many times scorned Trump complete his separator policies, which resulted successful a crisp diminution successful forbidden migrant crossings into nan United States. Trump ran successful 2016 connected a promise to build a separator wall and have Mexico salary for it, but it ne'er did. 

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"How overmuch of that wall did he build? I deliberation nan past number I saw was astir 2%," Harris said Wednesday. 

Harris was asked astatine nan municipality hallway if she agreed to earmark $650 cardinal to proceed building of nan separator wall, which Harris antecedently called "stupid."

"I promise that I americium going to bring guardant that bipartisan measure to further fortify and unafraid our border. Yes, I am, and I'm going to activity crossed nan aisle to walk a broad measure that deals pinch a surgery immigration system," she responded. 

On Thursday, Harris said Trump prefers to tally connected nan problem alternatively of fixing nan migration system. 

"I intend to hole nan problem successful a measurement that is conscionable astir applicable solutions that are wrong our arm's reach. If we person nan committedness to do it," she said without responding to nan separator wall question. 

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On nan run way and successful media interviews, she has dodged questions astir nan Biden administration's separator policies that resulted successful record-high numbers of forbidden immigrants crossing into nan U.S. and migrant crime, preferring to knock Trump and beforehand a 2021 measure arsenic grounds that Biden tried to fortify U.S. migration policies up of nan migrant crisis.

That measure would person paved nan measurement to citizenship for millions of forbidden immigrants.