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‘She could start right now!’ Kamala pulls another shameless flip flop, this time on border wall

August 27, 2024 | | Print Article

Vice President Kamala Harris ignited heated criticism over yet another example of policy flip-flopping.

The Democrat presidential nominee caught plenty of heat for her support of a bill that includes expanding what she once called the “un-American” southern border wall, an obvious reversal, with many calling attention to yet another 180-turn by the VP.

Harris pledged to sign the recent bipartisan border security bill that includes sinking hundreds of millions in funding into the project that has been a major part of former President Donald Trump’s platform and legacy. The Trump campaign continues to hammer Harris for her failure as “border czar” and the current disaster at the U.S.-Mexico border.

“It requires the Trump border wall,” U.S. Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) told Axios about the bill that includes more than just funding the border wall.

“It is in the bill itself that it sets the standards that were set during the Trump administration: here’s where it will be built. Here’s how it has to be built, the height, the type, everything during the Trump construction,” added Lankford, who worked with Chris Murphy (D-CT) in negotiating the bill that collapsed in Congress earlier this year.

Supporting the bipartisan border proposal seems a surprising reversal from Harris who slammed Trump’s wall in 2017 soon after she became a senator, saying it was a “stupid use of money. I will block any funding for it.”

She mocked the wall as Trump’s “medieval vanity project” during her first presidential campaign in 2019 and, in 2020, she wrote that “Trump’s border wall is a complete waste of taxpayer money and won’t make us any safer.”

Harris’s about-face on the bill was announced at the DNC last week.

“After decades in law enforcement, I know the importance of safety and security, especially at our border,” she said as she accepted the Democrat nomination. “I will bring back the bipartisan border security bill that he killed and I will sign it into law.”

The position surprised Lankford who said Harris never participated in any of the congressional negotiations that took place over the months in negotiating the plan.

“We never saw any vice president staff here. … She was a Johnny-come-never,” he told Axios. “I know she’s talking about it now, but she wasn’t talking about it at all before.”

The Democrat nominee and the Harris campaign have been trying to portray the VP as a tough former prosecutor and, despite the evidence to the contrary, someone who has been tough on immigration.

A recent Harris campaign ad calls her a “border state prosecutor,” with a video displaying Trump’s border wall, a fact that even caught flack from ABC News.

Another ad, which came days after she took the top slot on the Democratic ticket from President Joe Biden, said she “supports increasing the number of Border Patrol agents.”

The latest flip-flop by Harris follows her change in tune on previous stands on Medicare For All and a ban on fracking. The proposed border bill was not only about the wall, however, and included “more money for asylum lawyers and judges for the overloaded immigration system. It also gave the president the authority to shut down the border if more than an average of 5,000 migrants crossed per day,” Axios noted.

GOP vice presidential nominee Sen. J.D. Vance called Harris out as a “fake” in response to the report.

“If she wants to build the border wall, she could start right now!” he wrote on X.

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