Flashback: Harris Denounced Trump Border Move — Now Biden Is Taking a Similar Action

Vice President Kamala Harris criticized former President Donald Trump for sending active-duty military personnel to the U.S.-Mexico border in 2018.

Now, President Joe Biden is taking a similar action to help augment officials at the border.

This week, a 2018 interview with Harris surfaced where she criticized the Trump administration’s decision to send 5,200 active-duty troops to the border ahead of the midterm election.

Harris thanked members of the military before stating, “I also believe that the administration made a decision to deploy them based on a political agenda. And I believe that it is inappropriate to require the limited resources of the United States military to be used in such a way… you know, these folks who are being deployed there, they’re gonna leave, they’ve left their families, they will not be home, it looks like, for Thanksgiving.”

“And all because there needed to be some demonstration for the TV cameras based on a political agenda instead of what is a national security threat,” she added.

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Politico noted at the time the deployment would bring “the total military presence on the southern border to more than 7,000, roughly the same number fighting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.”

“The troops will include military engineers to construct additional barriers and fencing, as well as helicopter units and cargo aircraft to move