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Harris camp’s new strategy page criticized for lacking details on border security
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Harris camp’s new strategy page criticized for lacking details on border security

Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign has just launched a new “Issues” page on its website, featuring a 23-point agenda, after weeks of criticism for its absence.

Pressure is growing on the Harris campaign to post a political platform on its website, similar to what former President Donald Trump and others have done in the past. But when the platform was released this week, it faced even more criticism for a lack of details.

In particular, a conservative immigration expert criticized the fact that Harris’ position on funding the border wall was not made clear in the political program, nor whether she still views illegal border crossings as a civil or rather a criminal problem.

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Border wall open

A section of the border wall in Del Rio, Texas, is unfinished. (Fox News)

“The Harris campaign finally has an ‘issues’ page, but – at least on the issue of immigration – there is nothing to say,” Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, told Fox News Digital. “She doesn’t say whether she would build more border barriers. She doesn’t say whether she still wants to decriminalize border crossings. The statement just repeats the meaningless nonsense about the Senate’s ‘bipartisan’ border bill, which was crafted by the Biden-Harris DHS to codify its unlawful plans to import more illegal aliens.”

Although it suggested that a potential Harris-Waltz administration would “bring back the bipartisan border security bill,” the new online policy platform did not indicate where Harris stands on funding the construction of an additional border wall. Republicans have cited Harris’ public support for the failed bipartisan border bill as evidence that she now supports a border wall after once calling it a “medieval prestige project.”

However, Harris campaign officials have said the border bill does not provide additional funding for border wall construction – it simply extends the time frame for spending funds approved in Trump’s final year in office. However, the bill does include restrictions to ensure the money is spent on border barriers.

“Americans should believe Harris’ past statements and her current policies as vice president,” Lora Ries, director of the Heritage Foundation’s Border Security and Immigration Center, said in a statement to Fox News Digital on Tuesday. “She has stated numerous times that she opposes a border wall. And on day one of the Biden-Harris administration, they stopped construction of the border wall system.”

Bernie Sanders says Harris is abandoning her far-left policies “to win the election.”

Migrants at the border

Migrants walk along a highway in southern Mexico earlier this summer on their journey north toward the U.S. border. (Edgar H. Clemente/AP Photo)

During her 2019 presidential bid, Harris suggested in a nationally televised debate that she would not prosecute illegal border crossings, and in a segment of ABC’s “The View,” she reiterated her stance in a dispute with Meghan, the daughter of the late Senator John McCain.

“I wouldn’t make it a crime punishable by prison,” Harris said. “It should be a civil matter, not a criminal one.”

“Harris has repeatedly said during her CNN interview that her values ​​have not changed,” Ries stressed in her statement to Fox News Digital.

Fox News Digital reached out to the Harris campaign for comment on criticism from Krikorian and others about the lack of specifics in the new online political platform, but received no response.

The Harris campaign website posted a "Problems" Page on its website that includes a policy platform from the Harris-Walz campaign. The addition comes 50 days after Joe Biden withdrew from the presidential race.

The Harris campaign website has added a page titled “Issues” to its website, which includes a policy platform from the Harris-Walz campaign. The addition comes 50 days after Joe Biden withdrew from the presidential race. (Harris campaign website)

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Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt called the new policy program “a late-night, half-hearted wish list of policies.”

“If Kamala really wanted to cut costs and secure the border, why did she vote in the runoff election to stoke inflation and support the war on our energy industry, and why is she allowing an invasion of illegal immigrants across our southern border at this very moment?”

Shortly after the Harris campaign’s “Issues” page was added to its website, social media users pointed out that the new webpage included metadata with language urging voters to re-elect President Joe Biden, according to The New Republic. The Biden language was quickly removed, but not before leaving the impression that the Harris campaign had copied and pasted from Biden’s documents, the newspaper reported.

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