Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker says it’s "natural" to shift policy stances as he defends Harris' border plans
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said Sunday it’s natural to “adapt your policies to meet the moment” as he sought to defend Vice President Kamala Harris’ border policy against former President Donald Trump’s attacks.
On Friday, Harris visited the US southern border in Arizona to address immigration and border security, a point of vulnerability in her presidential campaign so far. In her speech, she outlined plans to expand on President Joe Biden’s border restrictions that crackdown on asylum seekers — a drastic shift from her previous support of decriminalizing illegal border crossings.
“There’s been massive migration all throughout the world, people literally moving from one country to another,” Pritzker said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “And that began to increase significantly over the last four years.”
As CNN previously reported, Pritzker was more critical last year of the Biden administration’s handling of immigration, demanding that it take steps to address the crisis that he said was approaching a breaking point in Chicago.
On Sunday, Pritzker defended Harris, saying, “What Kamala Harris has put forward is that she would stand up for the bipartisan border security bill that Donald Trump torpedoed.”
“It’s a challenging issue to resolve without legislation,” Pritzker added.
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