“I’ve been covering the border for years, and so I know this is not a problem that started with your administration,” Whitaker said. “But there was an historic flood of undocumented immigrants coming across the border the first three years of your administration. As a matter of fact, arrivals quadrupled from the last year of President Trump.”
“Was it a mistake to loosen the immigration policies as much as you did?” Whitaker then asked.
“It’s a long-standing problem, and solutions are at hand, and from day one, literally, we have been offering solutions,” Harris responded.
“What I was asking was, was it a mistake to kind of allow that flood to happen in the first place?” the veteran CBS News journalist pressed.
“I think the policies that we have been proposing are about fixing a problem, not promoting a problem, okay,” Harris responded.
“But the numbers did quadruple under your watch,” Whitaker interjected.