Home Oversight Committee Chair James Comer of Kentucky launched a probe towards Vice President Kamala Harris final week, requesting that the U.S. Customs and Border Safety flip over all correspondence together with her workplace—regardless of that she by no means oversaw the border.
Comer says the aim of the probe is to “understand [Harris’] role” in coverage about migration by way of the U.S.-Mexico border. The very conveniently timed probe follows Comer having to abandon his dream of impeaching President Joe Biden, as a result of that investigation’s whole lack of proof.
However Comer is so within the behavior of baselessly investigating his rivals that he simply can’t give it up. And to say the least, his newest probe is as purely political and as meritless as his Biden probe.
Comer’s probe seems to stem from the widespread GOP fiction that Harris has been Biden’s “border czar,” with Comer saying in a Sunday interview on Fox Information that Harris was “in charge” of the border and that she “failed miserably.”
Nonetheless, her position within the administration’s immigration coverage was not centered on the border however as a substitute on diplomacy with officers in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras, with a aim of determining how the U.S. can assist these nations stem migration to the U.S.
Moreover, Customs and Border Safety is overseen by Division of Homeland Safety Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, whom Home Republicans impeached on partisan grounds earlier this 12 months. And given Harris’ diplomatic position, she seemingly has little or no, if something, to do with border patrol.
Actually, in his letter to Customs and Border Safety, Comer blows up his personal get together’s “border czar” lie by admitting that Harris’s work wasn’t involved with the border itself.
“Instead of focusing on the southwest border … Vice President Harris focused on the purported ‘root causes of irregular migration’ from Central America,” he writes.
In his Fox Information interview, Comer tried to additional justify his probe by citing the price of the Biden administration’s border coverage.
“You know, this has had a huge impact on Medicaid because many of these people when they cross the border, they get free health care,” he mentioned. “That’s what Medicaid is, is free health care. They get transported all over the United States.”
Oh sure, the comfortable, pampered lifetime of the Central American refugee.
Florida Rep. Jared Moskowitz, one of many greatest trolls of Comer within the Democratic convention, is treating this new probe with the seriousness it deserves.
