Video resurfaces of VP saying it was inappropriate for Trump to send troops to the border

Kamala Harris is facing new accusations that she is soft on illegal migration after another video has surfaced of her slamming Donald Trump into sending troops to the border.

The now vice president made the remarks in a 2018 interview with NBC News when she was representing California in the U.S. Senate.

“It is inappropriate to demand that the limited resources of the United States military be used in such a way,” Harris said.

“All because demonstrations were needed in front of the TV cameras based on a political agenda,” she added.

But now her own boss has vowed to do just that; Joe Biden says he will send 1,500 soldiers to the US’s apparently porous border with Mexico.

The president is making the move because a Trump-era Covid dictate that makes it easier to boot illegals expires May 11.

Harris has also been criticized for only visiting the border once in just over two years, despite supposedly being Biden’s chief official for the crackdown on illegal immigration.

The vice president’s comments, which appeared online earlier on Wednesday, prompted Republicans to suggest she was being hypocritical.

Senator Ted Cruz, a Republican representing Texas, denounced the current administration’s “appalling failure” in cracking down on false asylum seekers.

“Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have presided over the worst disaster on our southern border in the history of our country,” he said.

In a thinly veiled reference to Biden’s decision to scrap his predecessor’s $16 billion border wall, Cruz said it is “the result of deliberate political decisions that have caused this chaos.”

More than 2.3 million migrants tried to illegally enter the United States across the Mexican border last year, according to US Customs and Border Protection.

That’s more than 1.7 million people in 2021 and just over 450,000 the year before, when much of the world went into lockdown during the coronavirus pandemic.

Emergency powers to remove migrants, known as Title 42, stem from a 79-year-old federal law that Trump used from the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

It allows US officials to deport migrants without even considering their asylum applications for public health reasons.

But with the president’s promise to end coronavirus emergency legislation, those powers will lapse.

Some border towns, including El Paso in Texas, have already declared a state of emergency.

Therefore, conservative lawmakers have urged the Supreme Commander to consider extending its use.

“America is under siege here,” said Arizona Senator Lindsay Graham. “May 11th is a nightmare for the American people, especially for people in New Mexico and Texas.”

“In the next 90 days, you will (see) from 900,000 to 1.1 million ‘migrants cross the border,'” he told reporters on Wednesday.

Official records show that more than 2.3 million migrants attempted to illegally enter the United States last year

The Biden administration announced on Tuesday that it will mobilize an additional 1,500 troops to help monitor and manage the expected flow of migrants.

There are already some 2,500 waiting for a wave of crossings after May 11.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas also plans to visit the Texas border region Thursday and Friday to review preparations for lifting Title 42.

The administration says it will use various legal tools to try to reduce the number of people trying to cross.

Those powers, known as Title 8, will result in undocumented migrants detained in the United States being punished in such a way that they are no longer eligible to legally enter the country.