In political history’s most remarkable U-turn, Vice President Kamala Harris – the Democrat’s presidential candidate – has converted into a tough on border security advocate. She pledges to hire thousands more border agents, to defeat drug cartels and to jail gun smugglers. A new ad the Harris campaign released nationwide concludes with this line: “Fixing the border is tough. So is Kamala Harris.”

The spot is so brazenly dishonest and such a shameless insult to voters’ intelligence that even the most grizzled, cynical political observers are taken aback.

Under her watch, millions of illegal aliens have crossed the border unchecked and disrupted communities into which they have resettled. Her home city of San Francisco, where she served as District Attorney, and California, where she was the Attorney General and the senior U.S. Senator, are crime infested messes.

Harris’ problem is her congressional voting record betrays her campaign promises. She cast seven votes against bills that would have strengthened border security. And Harris’ votes on interior enforcement reflected her disdain for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the agency she compared to the KKK and wants to abolish.

On 21 occasions, Harris voted for bills that would weaken interior enforcement including legislation to end sanctuary cities. Harris also opposed using 287........

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