As a senator, Vice President Kamala Harris pushed for Congress to restrict the Department of Homeland Security’s capacity to hold and detain illegal immigrants caught crossing into the United States.

The push came years before immigration officials began releasing thousands of illegal immigrants, including those with criminal records, into the United States, because of a record-level surge in immigration during the Biden-Harris administration.

Back in July 2019, Harris introduced legislation that would block DHS from constructing more facilities to detain illegal immigrants. According to a summary of the bill, it would prohibit DHS “from using any federal funds to construct or expand immigration detention facilities and requires additional oversight of such facilities.”

Additionally, the bill would have made DHS come up with a plan to reduce the number of available beds for illegal immigrants and come up with “community-based alternatives to detention.”

She had introduced a similar bill back in May 2018 that also aimed to reduce the capacity for federal authorities to detain illegal immigrants.

If her legislation had succeeded, it likely would have exacerbated the illegal immigration crisis during the Biden administration as an estimated 10 million illegal immigrants have entered the United States.

Over the last few years, there have been reports of thousands of illegal immigrants being released because of limited detention space.

Thousands of illegal immigrants, including those with criminal records, were released in May 2023 ahead of an expected surge of illegal crossings because of the end of Title 42, the Washington Times reported. Title 42 was a Trump-era policy that allowed illegal immigrants to be turned back because of health concerns.

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The New York Post reported that 13,000 illegal immigrants were released onto the streets of San Diego last October because of limited shelter space.

Since becoming the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, Harris has come under increasing scrutiny from conservatives, especially for her record as Biden’s “border czar.”

Republicans have pointed to Biden’s announcement in March 2021 giving Harris authority to respond to the crisis. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) traveled to the border on Thursday, saying that the crisis had been “engineered” by the Biden-Harris administration.

“Border czar and San Francisco radical Kamala Harris bears the responsibility for this disaster,” Johnson said as he spoke with reporters at the San Ysidro Port of Entry in San Diego.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Ranking Member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, wrote a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray on Friday demanding that he correct his controversial statement from his House hearing this week when he suggested that former President Donald Trump may not have been hit by a bullet during an assassination attempt two weeks ago.

Wray told the House Judiciary Committee that it was not clear what hit Trump, that there was “some question about whether or not it’s a bullet or shrapnel that hit his ear.”

“As Ranking Member of the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, I believe it is very important for you to correct your testimony before Congress on Wednesday when you indicated it is uncertain whether President Donald J. Trump was hit by a bullet, glass, or shrapnel,” Graham wrote in a letter to Wray. “It is clear to everyone that President Trump survived an assassination attempt by millimeters, as the attempted assassin’s bullet ripped the upper part of his ear.”

Graham noted that official government briefings that he has received clearly stated that Trump was hit by a bullet, therefore it “should not be a point of contention.”

“I urge you to immediately correct your statement and acknowledge that President Trump was hit by a bullet rather than glass or shrapnel,” he added. “As head of the FBI, you should not be creating confusion about such matters, as it further undercuts the agency’s credibility with millions of Americans. Please correct this statement immediately.”

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Graham’s letter comes as The New York Times conducted a thorough video, audio, and trajectory analysis that found that Trump was hit by a bullet and not any kind of debris.

Forensic experts confirmed that the viral photo that captured a bullet passing by Trump’s head, after it struck his ear, was the first shot that was fired.

A remarkable photo captured by my former White House Press Corps colleague Doug Mills.

Zoom in right above President Trump’s shoulder and you’ll see a bullet flying in the air to the right of President Trump’s head following an attempted assassination. pic.twitter.com/FqmLBCytoW

— Haraz N. Ghanbari (@HarazGhanbari) July 14, 2024

“He flinches, and his right hand already starts reaching for his right ear during that time between the first audible shot and the second audible shot,” said Rob Maher, an audio forensics expert at Montana State University.

As Trump pulled his hand away from his ear, blood can be seen on it, indicating that the bullet that missed his head by only fractions of an inch did, in fact, strike Trump’s ear.

Photographs following the shooting that that were taken over the rally site in Pennsylvania showed that the 20-year-old would-be assassin had a clear line of site at the former president and that there was nothing impeding his line of fire.