Ramaswamy Says Harris Must Apologize

Vivek Ramaswamy slammed Vice President Kamala Harris’s record on illegal immigration on the final day of the Democratic National Convention, urging her to apologize to the families of victims affected by crimes committed by migrants.

At a press conference representing the Trump campaign, Ramaswamy attacked the Biden-Harris administration’s handling of border security, specifically pointing out cases where American citizens were murdered by illegal immigrants.

The former Republican presidential primary candidate challenged Harris to “have a spine and to apologize to the family members of Laken Riley” and to the families of other American citizens who have been killed by illegal immigrants during her acceptance speech on Thursday night.

“Even more importantly, tell the rest of us what policies you’re actually going to adopt to make sure something like that never happens again in this country,” Ramaswamy said.

Ramaswamy’s remarks come as former President Donald Trump is set to visit the southern border in Arizona, where state law enforcement is currently engaged in a manhunt for a suspect who made threats to kill Trump during his visit.

At the press conference on Thursday, Ramaswamy also addressed the Biden-Harris administration’s decision to stop DNA testing at the southern border. This testing, implemented under Trump, was used to verify that children brought to the border were not being smuggled by human traffickers or cartel members.

.@VivekGRamaswamy slams the Biden Administration for its failures on the southern border and challenges Kamala Harris "to have a spine" and apologize to the families of American citizens killed by illegal immigrants. pic.twitter.com/HqRLEL0BiM

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“If you actually cared about reuniting families you would at least genetically test, using the toolkit of modern science,” Ramaswamy said. “The truth of the matter though is that the cartels, many of whom are responsible for the human trafficking and child trafficking into the country, don’t want that reunification. Our own policy regime in this country, advanced by Democrats, favors exactly what the cartel business model calls for, which is allowing those children to be trafficked rather than reunited.”