Chuck Todd, a prominent anchor with MSNBC, seemed to have quite a difficult time with accepting the statements from Vice President Kamala Harris concerning the security of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Harris took part in an interview with Todd that went live during a Sunday morning broadcast of the network’s “Meet the Press,” and she issued the claim that the immigration system was broken but the overall issue surrounding the border had been dealt with, leaving the border secure — all despite the fact that well over two million illegal immigrants were expected to sneak their way across the border for the first time in history.
"We’re gonna have 2 million people cross this border for the first time ever." Chuck Todd doesn't appear to buy VP Harris' claim that the border is secure. pic.twitter.com/7K6Txsxc0Z
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Todd broached the idea just as the multi-topic interview started to come to a close, claiming, “Final topic here. We’re here in Texas, I want to ask you about the border. Would you call the border secure?”
“I think that there is no question that we have to do what the president and I asked Congress to do. The first request we made, pass a bill to create a pathway to citizenship,” Harris started before answering the questions quite directly. “The border is secure, but we also have a broken immigration system, in particular over the last four years before we came in, and it needs to be fixed.”
“We’re gonna have 2 million people cross this border for the first time ever. You’re confident this border is secure?” questioned Todd.
“We have a secure border in that that is a priority for any nation, including ours and our administration,” Harris continued, seemingly trying to push the topic of conversation to try and throw the blame for the present situation on former President Donald Trump. “But there are still a lot of problems that we are trying to fix. Given the deterioration that happened over the last four years.”
Harris finished her statements by once again sounding the call for a “pathway for citizenship” and making the argument that the only actual reason that had not yet been done was that those in charge of the border states, which currently sport Republicans primarily, was “playing politics” with people’s lives.
“We also have to put in place a law and a plan for a pathway for citizenship for the millions of people who are here and are prepared to do what is legally required to gain citizenship. We don’t have that in place because people are playing politics in a state like this [Texas] and in Congress — by the way, you want to talk about bipartisanship, on an issue that at one time was a bipartisan issue. Both in terms of Republican senators and even presidents.”