September 13, 2022

Top Democratic Senator Blasts Kamala Harris For Claiming Southern Border Is ‘Secure’: ‘She’s Dead Wrong’

By Daily Wire News
US Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute leadership conference in Washington, D.C., US, on Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022. Falling gas prices, two major legislative victories and early signals that red-hot inflation may be easing have boosted Democrats' once improbable bid to retain their House and Senate majorities in the November midterms.
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Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) slammed Vice President Kamala Harris (D) during an interview Tuesday afternoon over her claim that the U.S. Southern Border is “secure.”

Manchin made the remarks during a Fox News interview with anchor Bret Baier in response to Baier bringing up Harris calling the border “secure.”

“It’s wrong. She’s dead wrong on that. And I have said this,” Manchin said. “If we don’t secure it — I voted every time for the wall. But we need the wall and a lot more, technology, more agents. The 2013 immigration bill was still the best piece of legislation I think that we have ever had before us. We couldn’t get it passed through the Republican House at that time because of some politics involved there.”

“And they — the amnesty, people were shouting the word amnesty,” he continued. “That piece of legislation would have corrected everything we have going wrong. But, for anybody — the vice president, president, anybody — to say our borders are secured, that is not accurate. I have been there. It’s wrong.”

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TRANSCRIPT:

BRET BAIER, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: Vice President Harris said this weekend the Southern border is — quote — “secure.”

SEN. JOE MANCHIN (D-WV): It’s wrong. She’s dead wrong on that. And I have said this.

If we don’t secure it — I voted every time for the wall. But we need the wall and a lot more, technology, more agents. The 2013 immigration bill was still the best piece of legislation I think that we have ever had before us. We couldn’t get it passed through the Republican House at that time because of some politics involved there.

And they — the amnesty, people were shouting the word amnesty. That piece of legislation would have corrected everything we have going wrong. But, for anybody — the vice president, president, anybody — to say our borders are secured, that is not accurate. I have been there. It’s wrong.

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