Fox News Sunday host Shannon Beam hammered Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Democrats' mishandling of illegal immigration, the Daily Caller reported. Buttigieg and others are attempting to rewrite history on the issue for presumptive presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris.
Shortly after his inauguration, President Joe Biden put Harris in charge of fixing the illegal immigration problem at the U.S.-Mexico border. She did nothing to stop migrants flowing in by the millions, and Democrats have paid the price.
Now that Harris has replaced Biden as the Democratic candidate for president, party surrogates have been out in full force to convince Americans that she never really was in charge anyway. Buttigieg was following those marching orders when he downplayed migrant crime, but Beam schooled him on Sunday's program.
In an attempt to steer away from talking about Harris' part in the crisis, Buttigieg disputed a point about migrant crime made at the Republican National Convention earlier this month. Buttigieg tried to say claims about crime caused by illegal immigrants are overblown, to which Beam shot back that victims would "still be alive" if criminals weren't allowed in to begin with.
“I saw something else really important happening at the Republican National Convention on the border and the talk about immigration, which we all recognize as a problem. Which is, they try to paint this narrative that if you live somewhere far from the border and immigration hasn’t impacted you personally, you need to think that immigration is a driver of crime," Buttigieg claimed.
"That was the real message. Immigration leads to crime," Buttigieg added.
“Well, there are blue state governors and mayors who say that every state is a border state now. That’s Democrats," Beam shot back while Buttigieg tried to talk over her.
"Yeah, now they’re saying, but what the false message of the RNC was that this was leading to an increase in crime," Buttigieg claimed, trying to pivot to statistics that can be manipulated. Instead, Beam plainly said that if these criminal migrants had "not been in this country illegally, people would still be alive."
The Democratic Party knows that Americans are frustrated with the problems brought on by illegal immigration. They also know that it falls squarely at the feet of Harris, who was charged with fixing the problem.
Fox News reported that in March 2021, Biden tapped Harris to determine why there was mass migration from Central and South America in hopes of stopping it. From then on, Harris was known as the "border czar."
Though the administration rejected that moniker, friends and foes alike used it when referring to Harris. However, with her new role as electoral savior of the Democratic Party after Biden dropped out of the presidential race, the media has launched a coordinated effort to rewrite history.
One of the news outlets that tried and failed was Axios which claimed that "the Trump campaign and Republicans have tagged Harris repeatedly with the 'border czar' title — which she never actually had." Unfortunately, the internet is forever and people quickly found examples from their own reporting using that title.
Democrats are weak on the border issue as it is, but especially Harris who was specifically tasked with fixing it. She may have Buttigieg and all of the rest in her corner, but what she doesn't have on her side is the truth.
