July 1, 2021 | Rapid Response | RNC Communications

Harris' 100 days of failure

Rapid Response

This week, Kamala Harris passes 100 days as border czar.

 

That’s 100 days of failure. To mark the date, below are 100 of literally thousands of bad headlines showing just how catastrophically she has failed.

 

A border crisis of historic proportions

 

  1. Washington Examiner: More than 61,000 migrants released into the US from the border under Biden

  2. CNN: Immigration: Nearly 6,000 undocumented immigrants apprehended daily at US-Mexico border in April 

  3. CNN: US on track to encounter record 2 million migrants on the southern border, government estimates show

  4. Washington Examiner: Crisis worsens: 178,622 attempted to cross US-Mexico border illegally in April, most in two decades

  5. NPR: March Saw Record-Breaking Numbers At The U.S.-Mexico Border

  6. The Daily Wire: Number Of Illegal Border Crossings Highest In Fifteen Years Amid Biden Admin Immigration Struggles

  7. Axios: Scoop: Kids' border surge expected to last 7+ months

  8. The Washington Post: Border agents took 172,331 into custody in March, statistics show 

  9. The Washington Post: Border crossings leveling off but remain near 20-year high, preliminary April data shows 

  10. NBC News: Southwest border crossings on pace for highest levels in 20 years, Biden admin says 

 

Biden and Harris doubled down on a failing open borders agenda that created the crisis

 

  1. The Wall Street Journal: Editorial: The U.S.-Made Border Crisis 

  2. Reuters: Exclusive: 'Migrant president' Biden stirs Mexican angst over boom time for gangs 

  3. The Washington Post: ‘No end in sight’: Inside the Biden administration’s failure to contain the border surge

  4. Reuters: ‘U.S. Welcome Patrol’: how some border agents are struggling with Biden’s policy shift 

  5. The Washington Post: ICE deportations fell in April to lowest monthly level on record 

  6. The Washington Post: Biden administration reins in street-level enforcement by ICE as officials try to refocus agency mission

  7. Associated Press: Migrants freed without court notice — sometimes no paperwork 

  8. The Washington Post: Biden administration leaves Homeland Security budget flat despite border surge 

  9. The Hill: Biden budget ends funding for border wall

  10. The Washington Free Beacon: Biden’s ICE Nominee Pushed to Release Violent Felons From His Jail

  11. The Independent: ‘We are not on the same side of the coin’: Guatemala president attacks Kamala Harris day before landmark meeting

 

A record number of unaccompanied migrant children are arriving at the border, overwhelming facilities

 

  1. Washington Examiner: New increase in migrant children at border five months into Biden tenure

  2. CBS News: Inside a Border Patrol facility holding 16 times more migrants than its capacity 

  3. CBS News: Border Patrol facilities holding migrant children are "stretched beyond thin," independent monitor finds 

  4. NBC News: Some migrant children stuck overnight on parked buses before going to family or sponsors, advocate says

  5. Newsweek: Ted Cruz Calls Joe Biden, Kamala Harris 'Inhumane' After Video Shows Crying Child Abandoned at Border 

  6. Associated Press: Over 4,000 migrants, many kids, crowded into Texas facility

  7. The New York Times: Migrants Crowd Shelters, Posing Test for Biden 

  8. CNN: Nearly twice as many unaccompanied migrant children apprehended daily at US-Mexico border as at 2019 peak 

  9. CNN: Highest number of migrant children in border facilities since government started releasing data  

  10. Fox News: Pentagon OKs third military base to house migrant children amid surge

  11. Fox News: Democrat lawmaker accuses Biden admin of playing 'shell game' with images of empty Border Patrol facility

 

Harris and Biden engaged in months of gaslighting, media restrictions, and denying reality

 

  1. CNN: Reporters call out Biden administration for lack of transparency at the US-Mexico border

  2. NBC News: Biden administration limits what Border Patrol can share with media about migrant surge at border

  3. The Hill: Biden faces pressure to end border facility media blackout

  4. New York Post: Editorial: Team Biden’s disgraceful border media blackout

  5. Washington Times: Biden blocks press access at border, constructs false narratives

  6. ABC News: Biden administration allows access to border facility -- but not ones over capacity

  7. The Washington Post: John Moore: I’m a photojournalist. Why is the administration banning me from border facilities?

  8. USA Today: White House backpedals after Biden refers to a 'crisis' at the border

  9. Fox News: The word the Biden administration won't use when it comes to the border? 'Crisis'

  10. Washington Examiner: Don’t say 'crisis': Biden team complicates border drama by refusing to utter dreaded word

  11. USA Today: DHS chief Mayorkas avoids calling migrants at border a 'crisis' when pressed during House hearing

 

The border crisis is fueling the drug epidemic

 

  1. ABC News: More fentanyl seized by CBP so far in 2021 than in all of 2020 

  2. Fox News: Fentanyl seizures at the border in May nearly 300% higher than last year

  3. Fox News: WV AG Morrisey sounds alarm on fentanyl overdose surge, points to Biden border policies

  4. CBS News: Fentanyl seizures skyrocket along U.S.-Mexico border

  5. Fox News: Border crisis: 233% increase in fentanyl seizures at southern border 

  6. Fox News: 'Bo Snerdley' rips 'narcissist' Harris for selfie cookies while fentanyl, sex trafficking flows over border

  7. The Daily Wire: FBI Director: ‘No Question’ Drug Cartel Activity Spilling Over Mexican Border Amid Crisis

  8. Roll Call: Sen. Rob Portman, Rep. John Katko: Biden’s border policies are worsening the opioid crisis

 

Criminals, including members of MS-13 and those on the terror watchlist, are exploiting the crisis to cross the border

 

  1. Fox News: Border agents arrest more MS-13 gang members, sex offenders trying to illegally enter US 

  2. The Sun: Border Control warns violent MS-13 gang members are 'exploiting the influx of migrants' to evade arrest at US border 

  3. New York Post: MS-13, other gang members exploit migrant wave to cross into US 

  4. The Washington Free Beacon: Intel Community Warns Biden of Terror Threat at Mexican Border 

  5. Reuters: U.S. arrested two Yemenis on terror watchlist who tried to cross border from Mexico

  6. Associated Press: 2 men on terrorism watch list stopped at U.S. border

  7. Fox News: Border Patrol agents in Texas nab 10 convicted sex offenders crossing the border in a week

  8. New York Post: Sex offenders, criminals among those arrested illegally crossing US border

 

Cartels are profiting

 

  1. RealClearPolitics: Cartels and Their Cruelty Are the Crisis at the Border

  2. Washington Examiner: Wray says cartel activity 'spilling over' into US is 'extremely concerning' 

  3. The Daily Wire: FBI Director: ‘No Question’ Drug Cartel Activity Spilling Over Mexican Border Amid Crisis

  4. Fox News: Sheriffs ask VP Harris to meet border residents 'terrorized' by human traffickers, cartels

 

Biden’s border agenda has created a humanitarian crisis

 

  1. New York Post: ‘We need more body bags’: Texas rep paints grim picture of border deaths

  2. The Hill: Ocasio-Cortez rips 'barbaric' conditions at border

  3. Fox News: Border crisis: 5 unaccompanied migrant girls found abandoned in Texas

  4. ABC News: 5 young migrant children, including an 11-month-old, found abandoned at US-Mexico border

  5. CNN: Border patrol video shows young children being dropped over 14-foot border fence into the US

  6. The Daily Wire: Asylum Seekers Say Biden Border Camps Rife With Crime And Kidnappings, Child Migrants Living In ‘Neglect, Filth, And Fear’

 

Border communities have been left abandoned by Biden and Harris

 

  1. NBC News: State troopers, local police ramp up along border as federal resources are stretched thin

  2. NBC News: As VP Harris visits Mexico City, a migrant tent camp grows in border town

  3. Axios: On the front lines of the growing border crisis 

  4. The Washington Post: In South Texas, frustration with high-speed chases, increased crime exacerbates political tensions

  5. Fox News: Texas Gov. Abbott says Harris hasn't called him about migrant crisis since VP was appointed as border czar

  6. New York Post: Kamala Harris not fit to handle border crisis, Arizona sheriff says

  7. National Review: Arizona Governor Calls Harris ‘Worst Possible Choice’ to Manage Border Crisis

  8. Associated Press: Arizona town calls state of emergency over migrant arrivals

  9. NPR: Human Smugglers Bypass Border Patrol, Bedeviling Sheriffs And Ranchers In South Texas

 

Biden’s border crisis has gone global, as thousands escape into the U.S. unpursued

 

  1. The Washington Post: Border officials say more people are sneaking past them as crossings soar and agents are overwhelmed 

  2. Breitbart: Exclusive: Migrant 'Got-Away' Total Exceeds 185K this Year, Says Source

  3. The New York Times: From India, Brazil and Beyond: Pandemic Refugees at the Border

  4. Axios: Scoop: Illegal border crossings most in over decade — with four months to go

 

For months, Harris has dodged her responsibility to address the crisis

 

  1. Fox News: 'Clueless' Kamala Harris blasted for not visiting 'epicenter' of border crisis

  2. The Daily Wire: Kamala’s Aides ‘Panic’ After Biden Assigned Her To Solve Border ‘Challenge’: Report

  3. New York Post: Harris hosts dinner for female senators, but border talk missing from the menu

  4. The Washington Times: Kamala Harris' border crisis ineptitude 

  5. National Review: Texas Democrat Henry Cuellar Pleads with Kamala Harris to Visit Border

  6. The Washington Post: In new letter, Democratic Rep. Cuellar urges Harris to travel to the border

  7. USA Today: New Mexico Rep. Yvette Herrell letter urges Kamala Harris to visit U.S.-Mexico border

  8. The Daily Caller: EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Chip Roy Sends Memo Advising Kamala Harris On Solving The Border Crisis, Says VP Should Take A Trip

  9. Fox News: Ashley Hinson unveils 'See the Crisis' bill as Kamala Harris declines to go to border

  10. Newsmax: Kamala Harris Again Annoyed at Questions About Border Visit

 

Harris’ trip abroad was a complete failure as the crisis remains worse than ever

 

  1. Newsweek: Kamala Harris' Migrant Crisis Diplomacy Is Off to a Rocky Start

  2. Fox News: Kamala Harris slammed for 'cringe' response to border questions: 'Not a joke to laugh at'

  1. The Week: Harris was reportedly prepped for border question, making her answer 'all the more unnerving' to allies

  2. Daily Beast: NBC’s Lester Holt Grills Kamala Harris on Migrant Crisis: ‘You Haven’t Been to the Border’

  3. Business Insider: White House officials are 'quietly perplexed' by Kamala Harris' comments on not yet visiting the border and fear they may overshadow her first foreign trip as VP, report says

  4.  The Daily Mail: "I never imagined this level of narcissism': Kamala Harris is slammed for passing out cut out cookies of herself on Airforce 2 during border crisis tour

  1. The Washington Times: VP Kamala Harris lowers expectations for 'quick fix' to border crisis

  2. NPR: NPR/Ipsos Poll: Americans Concerned About Migrants At U.S.-Mexico Border

 

100 days as border czar and 100 days of failure. Unfortunately for the American people, there is no sign the next 100 days will be any better.