Border agents blast Kamala Harris' border claim, say it's 'far from secure'

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Biden-era immigration crisis 'getting worse,' senior border official says

FIRST ON FOX: Border officials slammed Vice President Kamala Harris’
declarations that the border is "secure," telling Fox News Digital that
the flood of illegal immigrants into the country is a crisis that is
getting worse by the day.

Kamala Harris twice declared the U.S. southern border is "secure" during
an interview Sunday, despite the tens of thousands of illegal immigrants
who routinely cross into the country every month.

"I think that there is no question that we have to do what the president
and I asked Congress to do, the first request we made: pass a bill to
create a pathway to citizenship," Harris said on "Meet the Press," which
aired on the 21st anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
"The border is secure, but we also have a broken immigration system, in
particular, over the last four years before we came in, and it needs to be
fixed."

NUMBER OF ILLEGAL MIGRANTS WHO ENTERED US SINCE BIDEN TOOK OFFICE
APPROACHING TWO MILLION

NBC News anchor Chuck Todd pushed back against Harris’ claim about the
border being secure, asking, "We're going to have 2 million people cross
this border for the first time ever. You're confident this border's
secure?"

"We have a secure border in that that is a priority for any nation,
including ours and our administration," Harris replied. "But there are
still a lot of problems that we are trying to fix given the deterioration
that happened over the last four years. We also have to put into place a
law and a plan for a pathway for citizenship for the millions of people
who are here and are prepared to do what is legally required to gain
citizenship."

"We don't have that in place because people are playing politics in a
state like this and in Congress," she added, referring to Texas. "By the
way, you want to talk about bipartisanship on an issue that at one time
was a bipartisan issue both in terms of Republican senators and even
presidents."

Harris, who was visiting the Lone Star State last week for a number of
events, was put in charge of tackling the border crisis by President Biden
shortly after they assumed office in 2021.

Meanwhile, the number of migrant encounters at the southern border smashed
through the 2 million mark this fiscal year, breaching the already
historic 1.7 million encounters last year, as Border Patrol agents deal
with a migrant crisis unprecedented in U.S. history and one that the Biden
administration has so far failed to slow.

One Border Patrol agent told Fox News Digital on Tuesday that the 2
million mark directly contradicts Harris' claim.

"Well, since we have apprehended over 2 million aliens so far this year,
which is a record, and the year is not over, and we set a single-day
apprehension record just last week, I believe, that does not exactly
scream that our borders are secure," the agent said.

"It was over 8,000 aliens for one day. That’s what we caught not what we
did not see or the gotaways," the agent added.

KAMALA HARRIS DECLARES ‘BORDER IS SECURE’ AS THOUSANDS OF ILLEGALS FLOOD
INTO US EVERY DAY

"This quote is more of the same old word salad responses that this vice
president gives," another border agent told Fox News Digital. "She may be
more delusional than [White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre]. In
my 13 years, the border was never more secure than it was after President
Trump finally had his policies put in place. The root cause of this
invasion is this administration and handing out undeserved citizenship
will continue to call in more illegal aliens, terrorists and MS-13 gang
members."

"DHS is currently scrambling for solutions as we cannot process the amount
of encounters BP is experiencing," a senior Customs and Border Protection
official told Fox News Digital. "Daily encounters are hitting 8,000 is
some cases — an all-time record. The border is far from secure. It’s
getting worse."

Officials estimated to Fox News Digital in July that more than 500,000
illegals were known to have slipped past agents in fiscal year 2022 so
far, but they have been detected by cameras or other sensors. There have
been about 55,000 so-called "gotaways" each month this fiscal year, and
that number does not include the individuals who have not been detected by
technology.

The number is also in addition to the 389,155 known? gotaways that DHS
Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas previously testified there were in all of
fiscal year 2021.

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BORDER SECURE

Still, the White House is trying to paint the border crisis as under
control. Jean-Pierre came under fire last month after she claimed that
people were not walking into the country illegally.

"That’s not how it works," she said.

Meanwhile, illegal immigrants dressed in full camouflage were spotted by
Fox News cameras being lowered over an Arizona border wall Tuesday by
human smugglers.

Those who have entered illegally have typically been deported if
encountered by ICE. However, the Biden administration imposed limits on
the agency, restricting them to focus on recent border crossers and
national security and public safety threats.

That guidance has since been blocked by a court injunction, but arrests
and deportations plummeted under the Biden administration. In fiscal year
2021, ICE arrested 74,082 noncitizens and deported 59,011 — down from
103,603 arrests and 185,884 removals in fiscal year 2020 and 143,099
arrests and 267,258 deportations in fiscal year 2019.

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