Arizona AG says Kamala Harris hasn’t responded to his invitation to tour the border

Vice President Kamala Harris and the Biden administration have not responded to his invitation for her to tour Arizona’s border area, the state’s lawyer normal claimed Thursday.

Attorney General Mark Brnovich spoke about the border disaster and the Biden administration response throughout appearances on Fox Business and Fox News.

“I guess if you were a philosopher you would say no response is a very loud response because we’ve not received any response,” Brnovich informed Fox Business’ Dagen McDowell.

“No response is a very loud response because we’ve not received any response.”

— Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich

He mentioned the lack of communication from the administration has been “disappointing.”

President Biden put Harris in command of the border disaster final month as the variety of migrants coming to the border has continued to surge. But as so-called “border czar,” Harris up to now has neither traveled to the border area nor held a information convention to tackle her particular border duties.

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Brnovich mentioned it might be vital for Harris to see for herself what’s happening at the border, together with how the unfinished border wall has helped drug smugglers.

‘It’s not honest’

Harris wants to “look into the eyes of people being smuggled across the border, being exploited by the cartels and realize this is a humanitarian crisis on so many levels,” Brnovich mentioned.

“It’s not fair to the migrants that think they’re being promised things, it’s not fair to the people – the hardworking taxpayers of this country who are going to have to subsidize and pay for health care and child care and other social services for these migrants,” he added.

It’s additionally not honest to anybody when “you have literally criminals coming into this country,” he continued.

Brnovich mentioned Arizona has sued the Biden administration over allegedly violating an settlement to present data by way of the Department of Homeland Security about the border and for halting deportation orders.

If an individual was making an attempt to deliberately create “chaos” at the border, Brnovich argued, “you would do as many things like the Biden administration is doing.”

He alleged that the Biden administration was “endangering national security” on “multiple fronts.”

‘I’ll purchase her a pastry’

Separately, Brnovich informed Fox News’ Harris Faulkner on “The Faulkner Focus” that the border isn’t a difficulty of “right versus left” however “right versus wrong.”

“This may be in our front yard today but it will be in everyone’s backyard tomorrow,” he mentioned.

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“I will buy her a pastry if that will encourage her to come here,” Brnovich later joked of the criticism from Republicans that Harris took time to go to a Black-owned bakery whereas on an official go to to Chicago this week however has but to go to the southern border.