dallas mavericks owner mark cuban Riley Gaines, a 24-year-old former college swimmer and conservative activist, used her X platform on Friday to respond to criticism of Vice President Kamala Harris’s handling of the southern border.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) data released Thousands of illegal immigrants convicted of sex crimes and murder have crossed the border into the US under the Biden-Harris administration, lawmakers revealed on Friday. These include 13,099 convicts of murder and 15,811 of sexual assault.
Cuban, who has been a staunch supporter of Harris, Joe Biden in 2020 and Hillary Clinton in 2016, has defended the VP’s record on the border. Cuban even said in a recent CNBC interview that he thinks the actions he has taken to reduce the flow of illegal migrants at the southern border have “really worked”.
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Gaines calls out Cuba for praise of Vice President post on x Friday.
“We may have different standards for what constitutes a ‘good job’, but I don’t think the illegal entry of over 15,000 rapists, over 13,000 murderers and 320,000 missing children fits the bill,” OutKick host Gaines said. .benefits for girlsWrote the podcast.
Gaines refers to 320,000 missing children another report A report released by the Department of Homeland Security on August 21 revealed that the Biden-Harris administration had lost track of the number of migrant children who crossed the border without parents.
Former collegiate swimmer Riley Gaines, left, testifies during a hearing of the House Oversight Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services on December 5, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Cuban responded to Gaines in his own way x post Just 90 minutes later. Cuba acknowledged that the current administration “waited too long to set the border.” But then he criticized Trump for promising to carry out the largest mass deportation in US history if elected.
“I have said many times that they waited too long to close the border,” Cuban wrote along with screenshots of two articles covering the statistical reduction. “The good news is that the latest crossing numbers are down from January 21 and are up from 1.5 per day. Living around 1,500.” In illegal border crossing.
“And the Vice President has made it clear that she will sign a bipartisan border bill. It’s a fair argument to criticize her for waiting too long. But you also have to acknowledge that she’s having success now. That’s why deportations The Republican candidate says he’s going to deport 21 million people here illegally, he hasn’t said how he’s going to do it.”
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Cuban referenced a border bill that Senate Democrats failed to pass through Congress in May, when all but one Republican senator, including six Democrats, voted to block it.
Democrats argued that the bill aims to reduce border crossings, raise the standard for migrants to qualify for asylum and empower authorities to rapidly deport people who fail to meet that standard. Are. It would give the President the power to close the border if migration levels exceed certain limits. But concerns about the bill were raised over an earlier draft, which included cap provisions related to funding for Ukraine and Israel.
Gaines responds to Harris’ praise in defense of Cuba another x post On Friday evening, Cuba rejected the figures presented and criticized the border bill.
“They are bringing in illegal immigrants and dumping them in the heartland of America, often in places we don’t even know about,” Gaines wrote. “The bipartisan border bill is a Trojan horse. The first time it was voted on it also included funding for Ukraine. He’s trying to secure the border while (indirectly) acknowledging the problems Biden created under the Harris administration. She has been involved in this for 3.5 years. Why doesn’t the White House take action now?”
Dallas Mavericks minority owner Mark Cuban walks off the court following the Mavericks’ loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder at the American Airlines Center. (Jerome Miron/USA TODAY Sports)
Goins also called out Cuba for not addressing the figure of 320,000 missing children mentioned in his first post.
Cuban had not yet responded to Gaines at the time of publication.
Cuban’s defense of Harris and the Democrats has escalated in recent weeks. He has given several interviews supporting the VP in the upcoming election, and has made statements that have raised eyebrows among conservative voters. Cuban has described Trump as a “socialist” in a recent CNBC interview and even said he believes the mainstream media “leans to the right”.
Earlier this year, when Biden was still the presumptive Democratic nominee, Cuban even said he would vote for Biden instead of Trump, even if Biden was “being given a funeral.”
“If they were holding his last rites, and it was him versus Trump, and he was being given a funeral, I would still vote for Joe Biden,” Cuban told Bloomberg News in March.
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However, Cuban has also said that he supported Trump at the beginning of his candidacy in 2015.
“In 2015, I said, ‘He’s great. He’s not the typical Stepford candidate.’ I thought that was positive,” Cuban told Vivek Ramaswamy in an interview on August 7.
Gaines has been Trump’s advocate this election cycle. Gaines also spoke at a Trump rally in Glendale, Arizona, on August 23. There, Gaines gave a speech in which she claimed she was voting for Trump “because I’m a woman.”
He said, “They don’t believe in school choice; they don’t believe in parental rights or the protection of children; they don’t believe in freedom unless it means having abortions or destroying children by chemically and surgically Should not have the freedom to castrate.”
“You have one ticket that knows what a woman is and has vowed to take decisive action to protect our gender-based rights, while the other ticket believes that men can get pregnant, and tampons. Are in the boys’ bathroom.”
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Harris will make A rare visit to the southern border in Arizona, as she seeks to blunt her criticism of former President Trump on the matter and renew her call for a bipartisan border bill. Conservatives were not impressed by the visit.
“Border Czar Kamala Harris took almost four years to protect America and she failed,” RJ Howman, chair of the National Immigration Center for Enforcement (NICE), told Fox News Digital in response to the data. “She is allowing thousands of murderers and rapists to roam free. She puts criminals first and your and your family’s safety last.”
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