Trump slams Harris ahead of her border trip

 Donald Trump slammed Vice President Kamala Harris ahead of her trip to the US-Mexico border, blaming her for undoing policies that he enacted during his four years and spawning an “invasion” of undocumented immigrants.

“She’ll be out there tomorrow, standing probably in front of the wall that I built, trying to say what a wonderful job she did,” the former president said Thursday at a news conference at Trump Tower.

“Why would she go to the border now playing right into the hand of her opponent?” Trump said. “There can be no justification for what she’s done. There’s nobody saying, oh, gee, she’s done a fabulous job. She’s done the worst job, probably in the history of any border, not just our border. She keeps talking about how she supposedly wants to fix the border. We would merely ask, why didn’t she do it four years ago?”

Trump also said migrants are “infecting our country” and “destroying our country.”

“Americans have watched their communities destroyed by this sudden, suffocating inundation of illegal aliens. It’s an inundation. It’s an invasion. This influx has overwhelmed our schools. They’re taking the seats of students that can no longer go there, and they don’t even speak English.”

Praising his own administration’s efforts to secure the southern border, Trump said it “took a lot of talent” to negotiate “Remain in Mexico” policy that President Joe Biden reversed.

“He assigned her the job. And whether you call her a ‘border czar’ or just say that she was put in charge of the border doesn’t make any difference. Same thing, done a horrible job,” Trump said.

As CNN’s Daniel Dale has reported, Biden gave Harris a more limited immigration-related assignment in 2021, asking her to lead diplomacy with El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras in an attempt to address the conditions that prompted their citizens to try to migrate to the United States.