Tesla founder and owner of X Elon Musk criticized the vice president for an earlier post in which she had argued that illegal immigrants are not criminals.
Billionaire Elon Musk on Thursday criticized Vice President Kamala Harris for an earlier comment in which she argued that illegal immigrants are not criminals.
The chaos at the southern border remains a key vulnerability for Harris’ campaign, to the point that liberal media outlets have sought to deny that she has ever been President Biden’s border czar. At the same time, Harris has been criticized for being opaque about her platform and has been accused of changing the subject to appear moderate.
Musk shared a post Harris made in April 2017, where she said: “An undocumented immigrant is not a criminal.”
Elon Musk, owner of X, criticized Vice President Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party for the chaos at the southern border. (Musk photo by Marc Piasecki/Getty Images | Harris photo by KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
DONALD TRUMP JR: DEMOCRATS WANT THE NON-CITIZEN VOTE AND THIS IS HOW WE PLAN TO STOP THEM
“Please note this is an actual statement from Kamala,” Musk added.
Musk went on to say that allowing large numbers of immigrants in has been an electoral strategy by Democrats to win voters.
“The US Democratic Party as a whole has a huge incentive to bring in and legalize illegal immigrants, since they overwhelmingly vote Democrat,” he wrote in a later article. “No grand conspiracy theory is necessary. The simple incentive to win elections explains why they don't even deport criminals who attack police officers on camera, because that would mean losing those votes.”
In early August, past comments from Kamala Harris's 2019 campaign website came to light, linking to a study promoting what she called electoral benefits not to deport some illegal immigrants, saying the policy “could provide considerable contributions to the margin of victory in key states.”
Latin American migrants take part in a caravan towards the border with the United States, in Huehuetán, Chiapas state, Mexico, on June 7, 2022. (Isaac Guzman/AFP via Getty Images)
Republicans say Schumer must act on bill requiring proof of citizenship for voters if Democrat 'really cares about democracy'
Harris’ campaign appears to have shifted its rhetoric when it comes to the border, taking a tougher stance than her 2020 presidential campaign. Her campaign released new ads portraying the former California senator as tough on the border, showing images of the Trump-era border wall — the same border wall she previously criticized as “un-American.”
“Dreamers should not be pitted against their families or traded like a commodity in exchange for a $25 billion anti-American wall,” he wrote in 2018.
CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP
The Trump campaign has criticized Harris' campaign for trying to portray her as tough on the border.
“How long will the mainstream media allow Kamala Harris to hide and use her staff to speak on her behalf?” Karoline Leavitt, Trump's national press secretary, said in a statement. “It's DAY 37 of ZERO interviews and Kamala's anonymous campaign sources are now claiming she supports President Trump's border wall – this is an absurd and false claim.”
Fox News' Adam Shaw and Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.
