VERIFY: Ad claims Kamala Harris is the Border Czar

Published: Sep 11, 2024 Duration: 00:02:31 Category: News & Politics
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In the meantime, we're continuing to verify political commercials that you are seeing on TV. And today we're looking at one in an attack ad specifically against Vice President Harris. Some of these claims were also claims made in last night's debate. WCNC Charlotte's Megan Bragg verifies this for us. This ad is paid for by Donald Trump's campaign. We are breaking down two claims in this ad surrounding immigration to verify this ad. We went to the Biden Harris Administration, the Department of Homeland Security, US, Customs and Border Protection and the National Center for Health Statistics. The ad starts with this claim that Harris is a border czar in February 2021 President Joe Biden appointed Vice President Kamala Harris to head the root strategy which works to improve conditions in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. So people do not feel compelled to leave their homes in a visit to the US Mexico border. The Secretary of Homeland Security stated the vice president is leading our nation's effort to tackle the root causes of migration. Why people leave their home in the first place? I and my colleagues in the cabinet have been directed to execute the rest of the plan. He was on to say DHS has the responsibility to secure the border. So this claim is misleading. Kamala Harris was never named Border Czar while she is Vice President, Homeland Security is in charge of border security. The next claim under the Biden Harris administration, 10 million illegal immigrants crossed the border and stayed here. According to data from us, customs and border protection from February 2021 to June 20 24 there were more than 7 million people apprehended who were crossing the border illegally. Data also shows 2 million people were gota aways, meaning they were able to cross illegally and stay undetected in the United States. Another 1.1 million individuals showed up at a legal port of entry but did not have legal permission to enter the country. So this claim is misleading while this does add up to 10 million immigrants, not all were either allowed in or stayed in the US. Now, because many of you have been asking any time a campaign pays for a commercial time, we are legally obligated to run the ad. Now tomorrow we are fact checking an ad against former president Donald Trump. You can see all of our sources and information for this ad as well as the other ones. We fact checked on our website, wcnc.com with your verify, I'm Megan Bragg.

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