Grand Canyon Times

League of American Workers founder Steve Cortes said Vice President Kamala Harris has been a "total failure" in her duties regarding the border by allowing open border policies and heightened illegal immigration. 

“Kamala Harris fully owns the Biden-Harris-Mayorkas failure at the border," Cortes told Grand Canyon Times. "If anything, as shown by her illogical quotes about criminal trespassers into America, Kamala is even more radical than Joe.”

“In Arizona only 18% of citizens say that immigration makes the quality of life better, a consequence of the total failure of Kamala Harris as a so-called ‘border czar.’”

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, endorsed in an X post by outgoing President Biden to replace him as presidential candidate, said in 2017 that “undocumented immigrants” are not criminals.

“As California’s Attorney General, I know what a crime looks like,” then-U.S. Sen. Harris (R-Calif.) posted on X. “Let me tell you that an undocumented immigrant is not a criminal.”

Biden announced on March 24, 2021 his appointment of Harris “to lead efforts to stamp migration across the U.S.-Mexico border.”

"This new surge we’re dealing with now started with the last administration, but it’s our responsibility to deal with it humanely and to stop what’s happening," said Biden. "This increase has been consequential, but the vice president’s agreed – among the multiple other things I have her leading and I appreciate it – agreed to lead our diplomatic effort and work with those nations to accept the returnees and enhance migration enforcement at their borders."

Since Harris’ appointment, the “surge” of illegal aliens crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, particularly the Arizona portion, has grown worse.

There have been 406,441 total encounters in the Tucson Sector during fiscal year 2024, with 225,725 of these encounters being from citizens of Mexico, 75,610 from Guatemala, 3,096 from Honduras, 2,892 from El Salvador, and 99,118 from citizens from other countries.

During fiscal year 2024 to date, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has arrested 35,178 illegal aliens who have previous criminal convictions or who are wanted by law enforcement.

That’s according to an analysis of CBP Data conducted by Tucson Standard.

13.828 of these arrests have been made by the U.S. Border Patrol, and 21,350 of these arrests have been made by the CBP’s Office of Field Operations. The CBP’s 2024 fiscal year runs from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2024.

The Standard reported on July 1 an analysis of arrests of illegal aliens in the month of June, which included arrests of rapists, murders, and sex criminals.

Biden’s appointment of Harris to head his administration’s border effort came almost exactly two months after Biden signed a "Proclamation on the Termination Of Emergency With Respect To The Southern Border Of The United States And Redirection Of Funds Diverted To Border Wall Construction."

This order, signed on Biden’s very first day in office, said the Trump Administration's declaration of a national emergency at the southern border was "unwarranted" and paused all funds for the construction of the U.S-Mexico border wall begun under President Trump.

An American Greatness poll of Arizona voters released late last month found 59% of the state’s voters said the Biden Administration isn’t doing enough to stem the flow of illegal aliens across the border.

While that poll was taken before Biden’s announcement that he was stepping down from the campaign, Harris was in charge of the administration’s border effort.

Cortes is a political advisor and commentator. He previously traded global currencies and interest rates for 25 years for large international hedge funds. He has been an on-air broadcaster for CNBC, Fox News, and CNN. Cortes founded LAW in 2022 to conduct research and develops proposals on public policies impacting American workers and the economy.

Founded in 2022 by political strategist and commentator Steve Cortes, LAW conducts research and develops proposals on public policies impacting American workers and the economy.