The Harris campaign on Thursday confirmed to Fox News that Vice President Kamala Harris has changed her positions on a number of immigration and border-security policies, including decriminalizing illegal crossings and closing immigration detention centers.

"While Donald Trump is wedded to the extreme ideas in his Project 2025 agenda, Vice President Harris believes real leadership means bringing all sides together to build consensus," spokesperson Mia Ehrenberg said in a statement. "It is that approach that made it possible for the Biden-Harris administration to achieve bipartisan breakthroughs on everything from infrastructure to gun violence prevention. As President, she will take that same pragmatic approach, focusing on common-sense solutions for the sake of progress."

Harris has faced scrutiny for her past positions on border security as a California senator and a 2020 Democratic presidential primary candidate. A Harris campaign advisor told Fox that her positions have been "shaped by three years of effective governance as part of the Biden-Harris administration."

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Harris previously expressed support for decriminalizing illegal crossings at the border during the 2020 presidential primaries, arguing they should be a civil offense instead. 

"An undocumented immigrant is not a criminal," she said in 2017.

This week a campaign spokesman told Fox that "the Vice President's position is the same as the administration's -- unauthorized border crossings are illegal." 

On Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention, she had previously promised as a presidential candidate in 2019 to shut down immigration detention centers on "day one."

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On Thursday, the campaign said her position is the same as the administration’s, which is "continuing to ensure sufficient resources to enforce our laws and prioritize detention and removal for individuals who pose threats to public safety and national security, as well as ensure compliance with immigration proceedings and decisions, including removal."

More broadly, Harris has repeatedly backed the bipartisan Senate package that emerged from negotiations in the chamber earlier this year, which increases funding for the border, including ICE bed space, and a mechanism to limit asylum entries into the U.S.

In June, President Biden signed an executive order that limited asylum at the border, and has led to a sharp decrease in crossings after three years of a historic crisis. The administration has said the low numbers come directly because of that order, and has renewed calls for the package to be passed by the Senate -- blaming former President Trump for its failure to pass.

"The only ‘plan’ Donald Trump has to secure our border is ripping mothers from their children and a few xenophobic placards at the Republican National Convention. He tanked the bipartisan border security deal because for Donald Trump, this has never been about solutions just running on a problem," spokesperson Kevin Munoz said in a statement. 

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"Like everything with Donald Trump, it’s never been about helping the country, it's only about helping himself. There’s only one candidate in this race who will fight for bipartisan solutions to strengthen border security, and that’s Vice President Harris," he said.

The Trump campaign has pushed back against narratives in the media suggesting that Harris has turned into a moderate on the issue, attacking her positions this week. In response to Fox’s reporting, the Trump campaign said that Harris is "ON TAPE spanning a decade spewing her dangerously liberal positions on every one of these issues."

"She’s not changing, she’s just lying," the campaign said. 

The Department of Justice released a report Thursday finding that the Federal Bureau of Investigation regularly failed to properly handle child sex crime allegations. 

The DOJ's Office of the Inspector General (OIG) began working on the report following allegations the FBI mishandled reports against former USA physician Lawrence Nassar.

The OIG audited 327 incidents out of 3,925 cases opened by the FBI that allegedly involved "hands-on sex offense against a child or similar offense." 

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The audit flagged 42 incidents (13% of all incidents audited) due to the belief they required "immediate attention." 

"Specifically, we found no evidence that FBI employees complied with mandatory reporting requirements to SLTT law enforcement in 47 percent of the incidents we reviewed or to social services agencies in 50 percent of incidents we reviewed," the report states. "Of the reports that were made, we found that only 43 percent were made within 24 hours, as required by FBI policy."

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The Justice Department paid $138.7 million settling 139 claims that the FBI failed to adequately investigate Nassar despite years of pleas from athletes alleging abuse.

The report outlines 11 recommendations for the FBI to improve its handling of child sex abuse cases, including monitoring FBI employees' compliance with mandatory reporting, providing greater clarity on when incidents are required to be marked "Time Sensitive" or handled within 24 hours, and implementation of controls to ensure sex crime notifications are "appropriately documented."

"Ensuring the safety and security of children is not just a priority for the FBI; it is a solemn duty that we are committed to fulfilling with the highest standards. The FBI’s efforts combating crimes against children are among the most critical and demanding undertakings we do," the FBI said in a statement to Fox News Digital on Thursday.

"The FBI deeply values the trust the public places in us to protect the most vulnerable members of society," the FBI statement continued. "We are committed to maintaining the public's trust by implementing the necessary improvements to ensure the important changes we made to our Violent Crimes Against Children program in 2018 and 2019 have the intended effect of promoting the highest level of compliance and effectiveness."

OIG officials are pushing for FBI agents to undergo "additional training, controls, and oversight — including determining an acceptable caseload for agents who work crimes against children cases."