FIRST ON FOX: Greater than a dozen Texas Republicans, from the governor to members of the U.S. Home, slammed Vice President Kamala Harris’ deliberate go to to the border state Friday, telling Fox Information Digital the go to is “one of many dumbest political selections” they’ve seen.
“‘Border Czar’ Kamala Harris can come all the best way to Houston the place Jocelyn Nungaray was killed by Tren de Aragua gang members that she let into the nation, but she will’t be bothered to go to Jocelyn’s household and even say her title. Kamala Harris and her open border insurance policies have allowed over 11 million unlawful immigrants and harmful criminals like TdA into our nation, placing each American’s life in danger,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott advised Fox Information Digital.
“President Donald Trump has proven actual management on the border, with profitable border insurance policies that decreased unlawful immigration to the bottom stage in many years. Whereas Kamala Harris refuses to take actual motion on this disaster, Texas will proceed to step up with our historic border mission till now we have a companion within the White Home to make America safe once more.”
Harris will journey to the pink state simply 10 days forward of Election Day, and she or he is predicted to talk about the state’s abortion insurance policies after the Supreme Court docket overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. Abortion is a trademark of the Harris marketing campaign, together with Harris saying she helps eliminating the filibuster in an effort to go a regulation restoring abortion entry nationwide.
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Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick slammed Harris’ journey to Texas as “one of many dumbest political selections I’ve ever seen.”
“Kamala Harris coming to Texas for a rally is among the dumbest political selections I’ve ever seen. She and Colin Allred usually are not going to win in Texas. I’m glad she is spending the day in Texas as a substitute of campaigning in a swing state with just a few days left within the election. I hope she stays longer. Donald Trump goes to be the subsequent president as a result of the voters are fed up with the Harris-Biden regime and the chaos they’ve created,” Patrick stated.
Harris will likely be joined by Democratic Senate candidate Colin Allred, who’s making an extended shot run to unseat longtime Republican Sen. Ted Cruz.
Cruz slammed his Senate opponent in feedback to Fox Digital, saying Allred and Harris share the identical “radical insurance policies.”
“Colin Allred is Kamala Harris. They’ve spent the final 4 years working hand-in-hand in opposition to Texans and the American folks with their radical insurance policies, whether or not these be pushing to permit boys in ladies’ sports activities, permitting harmful unlawful aliens to return into our nation or making an attempt to destroy the oil and fuel business in Texas,” Cruz stated.
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“Colin and Kamala share an agenda, and now they’re going to share a stage for all Texans to see.”
“I’m glad she is spending the day in Texas as a substitute of campaigning in a swing state with just a few days left within the election. I hope she stays longer.” — Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick
As unlawful immigration spiraled in 2021, the Biden-Harris administration’s first yr in workplace, President Biden introduced Harris would lead the hassle to find out the “root causes” of immigration. The administration pointed to points corresponding to local weather change, poverty and violence driving migrants to the U.S.
The media and Republicans dubbed Harris the “border czar” shortly after, with the White Home rejecting the title. The title, nonetheless, has continued years later, together with Texas Republicans this week utilizing the title to slam Harris forward of her go to.
“Hundreds of thousands of migrants have illegally entered our nation on Border Czar Kamala Harris’ watch, so it’s no shock that she’d relatively discuss something however her abysmal monitor report on the border. If she will’t management the border, how can she run the nation? We’ve by no means had a safer border than underneath President Trump, and he’ll put a cease to this when he takes workplace. Nov. 5 can’t come quickly sufficient,” Texas Sen. John Cornyn stated.
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This aerial image taken Dec. 8, 2023, reveals the US-Mexico border wall in Sasabe, Ariz. (Valerie Macon/AFP through Getty Photos))
“Harris’ last-ditch effort to look severe on border safety is greater than laughable, it’s harmful. If she had been severe, she would’ve acted as a authentic ‘Border Czar.’ As a substitute, she imported over 20 million illegals into our communities the place they’re rewarded with authorities advantages, leaving U.S. residents to be raped and murdered by violent unlawful criminals,” Rep. Ronny Jackson stated.
“Harris admitted that she’s pro-mass amnesty and has gone as far as to assist taxpayer-funded transition surgical procedures for detained illegals. She is the last word panderer, and, if elected, will proceed her open-border insurance policies. Texans, together with our unbelievable Latino neighborhood, don’t belief her, which is why they’re projected to end up in report numbers to vote for Trump.”
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Texas politicians reply to Kamala Harris’ Texas go to. (Getty Photos)
Nineteen Texas leaders submitted feedback to Fox Information Digital slamming Harris’ deliberate go to, with a handful citing women and girls who’ve been murdered lately, allegedly by the hands of unlawful immigrants.
“Harris ought to go to Houston, however to not marketing campaign. She ought to come to apologize for purposefully permitting Texas border counties to be overrun and permitting younger Houstonians like Jocelyn Nungaray to be murdered by the folks she allowed in,” Rep. Dan Crenshaw stated.
Twelve-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray was sexually assaulted and murdered by strangulation when two unlawful immigrants of their 20s allegedly lured the younger woman underneath a bridge earlier than killing her in June.
Jocelyn Nungaray, 12, was discovered strangled to demise in a Houston creek. (Fox Houston courtesy of the Nungaray household)
“As a substitute of coming to Texas to ask for our votes, Kamala must be asking for our forgiveness. Particularly from the household of Jocelyn Nungaray and the numerous others devastated by her administration’s open border insurance policies. For 4 years, she has ignored Texans and the lethal disaster she has created at our southern border,” Rep. Roger Williams stated.
“Her negligence as Border Czar contributed to the tragic deaths of People, together with Jocelyn Nungaray, who was killed by two unlawful aliens from Venezuela. Younger ladies like Laken Riley, Jocelyn Nungaray and Rachel Morin could be alive at this time if Kamala Harris had taken her obligations significantly,” Rep. Wesley Hunt added.
Harris’ occasion will kick off Friday night in Houston, with reviews surfacing that she will likely be joined by musician Beyoncé, who’s initially from Houston.
“If she needed a safe border, why did I’ve to sue her administration dozens of instances to drive them to comply with federal immigration legal guidelines?” — Ken Paxton, Texas legal professional basic
The Harris marketing campaign didn’t instantly reply to Fox Information Digital’s request for touch upon the Texas Republicans’ feedback on her upcoming go to. The marketing campaign additionally didn’t reply to a request for affirmation concerning whether or not Beyoncé will be a part of the rally.
Harris joined a CNN city corridor Wednesday night exterior Philadelphia, the place moderator Anderson Cooper pressed the vp about her border insurance policies, together with whether or not she helps a border wall after calling the wall “silly” when it was championed by Trump throughout his administration.
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“Let’s discuss this compromise invoice that you just wish to go in case you are elected. You stated that is going to be a precedence. It contains $650 million in funding for the border wall. That is one thing Republicans needed, that was a part of the compromise. Below Donald Trump, you criticized the wall greater than 50 instances. You referred to as it ‘silly, ineffective, and a medieval self-importance challenge.’ Is a border wall silly?,” Cooper requested Harris.
“Let’s discuss Donald Trump and that border wall,” Harris stated whereas laughing. “So, keep in mind, Donald Trump stated Mexico would pay for it. Come on, they did not. How a lot of that wall did he construct? I feel the final quantity I noticed was about 2%. After which when it got here time for him to do a photograph op, you recognize the place he did it? Within the a part of the wall that President Obama constructed.”
Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential candidate, speaks as CNN moderator Anderson Cooper appears on throughout a presidential city corridor at Solar Middle Studios Oct. 23, 2024, in Aston, Pa. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Photos)
“However you agreed to a invoice that may earmark $650 million to proceed constructing that wall,” Cooper pressed.
“I pledge that I’m going to deliver ahead that bipartisan invoice to additional strengthen and safe our border. Sure, I’m, and I’ll work throughout the aisle to go a complete invoice that offers with a damaged immigration system,” Harris responded.
“So you do not assume it is silly anymore?” Cooper continued.
“I feel what he did and the way he did it was … didn’t make a lot sense as a result of he really did not do a lot of something. I simply talked about that wall, proper? We simply talked about it. He did not really do a lot of something,” she responded.
“Younger ladies like Laken Riley, Jocelyn Nungaray and Rachel Morin could be alive at this time if Kamala Harris had taken her obligations significantly.” — Rep. Wesley Hunt, R-Texas
Texas Legal professional Normal Ken Paxton railed in opposition to Harris in feedback to Fox Digital forward of her go to, saying she and Biden “deliberately dismantled each profitable Trump border coverage to let in as many aliens as doable” beginning on their first day in workplace.
“Now, Kamala needs to return to Texas and discuss border safety after 4 years of destroying American communities. If she needed a safe border, why did I’ve to sue her administration dozens of instances to drive them to comply with federal immigration legal guidelines? We’re combating Kamala’s damaging open borders doctrine within the courts as a result of she has unlawfully weaponized energy to make our nation extra harmful as a substitute of retaining People secure,” Paxton stated.
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“Now, Texas is combating Kamala’s apparent effort to permit noncitizens to vote illegally in American elections. We have to finish the madness, safe the border, restore the rule of regulation and put Americans first once more by re-electing President Trump.”
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