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Trump Attacks Harris with Clinton’s Words on Immigration

&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">The Trump campaign has flipped the script and is using former President Bill Clinton’s recent words about immigration against VP Harris&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Clinton&comma; stumping for Harris at a Georgia fish fry event&comma; defended the failed bipartisan Senate border security bill&comma; arguing that&comma; had the bill become law&comma; the federal government would have had more resources to properly vet migrants at the border&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;&lbrack;Harris is&rsqb; the only candidate who has actually endorsed a bill that would hold down immigration in any given year to any certain point and then give people a decent place to live&comma; make sure we didn’t divide people from their children&comma; and we did total vetting before people came in&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said Clinton&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">&&num;8220&semi;Now&comma; Trump killed the bill&period; The bill was written — being written by senior Republicans in the Senate&period; And he killed the bill&period; Why&quest; You got a case in Georgia not very long ago&period; They made an ad about it&comma; about a young woman who&&num;8217&semi;d been killed by an immigrant&period; Yeah&comma; well&comma; if they&&num;8217&semi;d all been properly vetted&comma; that probably wouldn&&num;8217&semi;t have happened&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">The Trump campaign seized on the remark&comma; which was about Laken Riley&comma; sending out an email statement titled &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Bill Clinton Blames Kamala Harris For Laken Riley’s Death&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">We don&&num;8217&semi;t normally agree with any Clinton in this column&comma; but in this case&comma; Bubba got it right&period; Bill was supposedly stumping for Kamala Harris&comma; trying to defend her horrific record as border czar&comma; when he accidentally told the truth&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">The 22-year-old Georgia student’s accused killer&comma; Jose Ibarra&comma; had crossed into the United States illegally in 2022 and got promptly released into the interior&period; Clinton tried to shift blame to Donald Trump&comma; who he claimed is responsible for killing that &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;bipartisan border bill” that Democrats insist would’ve fixed everything&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Problem is&comma; Ibarra was set free in 2022 &lpar;when Democrats controlled Congress&rpar;&comma; while that bill didn’t even surface until this year&period; And&comma; of course&comma; Trump&comma; as president&comma; set up numerous safeguards to keep dangerous illegal migrants like Ibarra <em>out<&sol;em> of the country&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Even those &&num;8220&semi;seeking asylum&&num;8221&semi; had to wait in Mexico until their cases could be heard under Trump&&num;8217&semi;s Migrant Protection Protocols&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Yet from the moment President Biden and Border Czar Kamala Harris took office&comma; they scrapped every last protection Trump erected&comma; including the Remain in Mexico program&period; Under the Harris-Biden administration&comma; almost anyone requesting asylum — no matter how bogus the ask or frightening their criminal background or terrorist ties — gets in&comma; virtually no questions asked&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Harris-Biden policies have let in thousands of illegal migrants from countries that are hotbeds of terrorism&period; Hundreds of migrants with links to terror are said to be free&comma; roaming US streets&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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