The ‘Secure Border’ of Kamala Harris

When Donald Trump was president in fiscal 2019, the Border Patrol did not encounter a single individual on the terrorist watchlist trying to illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border between the legal ports of entry.In the first ten months of this fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, they encountered 66.These include individuals, as CBP explains on its website, who are “known or suspected terrorists” or “individuals who represent a potential threat to the United States, including known affiliates of watchlisted individuals.“Did CBP fail to encounter any watchlisted individuals in 2019 because the Trump administration was less aggressive about securing that border?Or have 66 been caught this year because the Biden administration has sent a signal to the world that the border is not as secure now as it was three years ago and, thus, has inspired watchlisted individuals to try sneak in?Appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press” last Sunday, Vice President Kamala Harris claimed that the U.S.-Mexico border has indeed been …