Old North News

Steve Cortes, president of the League of American Workers, said North Carolina voters "who clamor for real change" do not believe media attempts to highlight Vice President Kamala Harris. 

"Kamala admits, in her own words, that she owns all the miserable failures of the Biden/Harris administration, especially runaway inflation and our open border," Cortes told Peach Tree Times. "Kamala Harris is the status quo candidate, as the incumbent — and North Carolinian voters who clamor for real change see through this media propaganda that tries to shape her as something novel and new.”

Cortes’ comments come after Vice President Harris affirmed on ABC’s The View that there was “not a thing that comes to mind” that she would’ve handled differently than President Biden, despite the President’s unpopularity among independent voters on key issues like the economy and the southern border. 

According to a BBC news report, there have been more than 10 million encounters with illegal migrants since the start of the Biden-Harris administration. Notably, this number does not include migrants who crossed the border undetected. 8 million of these encounters occurred at the southwest border. BBC notes that under the Trump administration there were only 2.4 million encounters. 

On March 24, 2021, President Biden tapped Vice President Harris “to lead our efforts with Mexico and the Northern Triangle…in stemming the movement of…migration to our southern border.” 

The New York Post reported that the Department of Homeland Security had reported over 400 migrants brought into the country from Central Asia or other places by a human smuggling network that had tied to ISIS. According to the Post, many of the migrants had entered the U.S. through the southern border and were released by CBP because they were not on the federal terrorist watchlist. Some of the migrants who were arrested have been deported for immigration violations, none have faced terrorism-related charges.