Border Patrol union criticizes Harris for ‘ignoring’ migrant crisis

The union that represents US border agents took aim at Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday, claiming the presidential candidate “ignored the border problem she created.”

The furious series of tweets came in response to a Harris delivers speech while visiting Arizona border town Earlier in the day, he vowed to crack down on the historic stream of illegal immigration.

“Vice President Harris has ignored the border problem she has created for more than three years. She goes there for 20 minutes for a photo session and decides to reiterate some of the things NPBC said earlier. But then again, where was she for the last 3 1/2 years? The National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) is angry.

“VP Harris stressed in Arizona that CBP needs more resources. We have caught over 8 million illegal immigrants in the last 4 years and now you realize with 38 days before the election we need more help.

The tweets – each of which received nearly 2 million views – were quickly followed by a brutal “fact checking”.

During his visit to the city of Douglas, Harris said she played an important role in parenting Overtime pay rates for border agents, funding that Biden signed into law in December as part of the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act.

However, the NBPC claimed that Harris, 59, played no role in pushing the legislation.

“Today, VP Harris claimed she played a role in increasing Border Patrol agent overtime pay. This couldn’t be further from the truth. As with all things border related, she was nowhere to be found when we needed her,” the union lamented.

Union wasn’t the only critic of Harris’ Arizona trip on Friday — border “czar” faces criticism Apparently wearing a $62,000 Tiffany necklace To visit the deteriorating border.

Harris visited the town of about 17,000 people and talked about a plan to fix “our broken immigration system” to take hold on one of her weakest political fronts as she faces a tough fight for whites. Have happened. House with Republican nominee Donald Trump, 78.

It was his first trip to the southern border since a trip to El Paso, Texas, in 2021 — and it comes on the heels of news of federal data released the same day that showed more than 15,000 people currently living in the U.S. Illegal immigrants have been convicted or charged with murder.

Harris has little chance of winning support from the NBPC.

The union chose Trump as its candidate in 2020 and tweeted earlier this summer, before Harris became the Democratic nominee, that he would “never endorse Biden.”