Vice President Kamala Harris’ visit last Friday to a border region in Arizona takes political cynicism to a new low. It is like hoping to score political points by visiting the relative of someone who has been murdered by a man your policies caused to be let out of jail despite his criminal record that includes repeated offenses.

After being assigned the role of controlling the border by President Biden early in their term and then doing very little to stem the flood of migrants into the U.S., Harris now wants us to believe she is serious and has seen the light. Her proposal is what you might expect from a liberal Democrat — spend more money we don’t have to hire more agents and put them closer together. This is about processing people who break laws to get here, not preventing their entry. For whatever reason (citizenship and votes) it appears the Biden-Harris administration wants to flood the country with people who don’t belong here, some of whom are dangerous criminals.

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Readers may email Cal Thomas at tcaeditors@tribpub.com. Look for Cal Thomas’ new book “America’s Expiration Date: The Fall of Empires and Superpowers and the Future of the United States” (HarperCollins/Zondervan).

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