Every member of the House and Senate received a memo on Thursday detailing Vice President Kamala Harris’ record on border and immigration policy. 

“There is no question that President [Joe] Biden tasked Kamala Harris with ‘securing the border,’ and there is no doubt that she has FAILED to secure the border and keep the American people safe,” Advancing American Freedom tells lawmakers in the one-page memo. 

Despite claims that Harris was never named the “border czar,” Advancing American Freedom, a conservative policy organization, aims to prove otherwise, citing Biden’s announcement on March 24, 2021, that Harris will “lead our efforts with Mexico and the Northern Triangle” of Central America.

On that same day, Harris wrote on social media that Biden “asked me to lead our diplomatic work with Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. To address the situation at the southern border, we have to address the root causes of migration. It won’t be easy work—but it’s necessary.”

“The liberal media is attempting to gaslight the American people into the lie that Vice President Harris has nothing to do with the Biden-Harris border crisis,” Paul Teller, executive director of Advancing American Freedom, told The Daily Signal.

In March 2021, more than 173,000 illegal aliens were encountered at the southern border, and encounters continued to climb for the following four months before declining slightly in August 2021. 

“Under her tenure as Border Czar, [Customs and Border Protection] has encountered over 8 MILLION illegal aliens on the Southwest border, and the Southwest border has exceeded 173k encounters in 31 out of the 40 months that Kamala Harris has been Border Czar,” the group tells lawmakers in the memo. 

Citing a January 2024 report from the Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee, Advancing American Freedom tells lawmakers that illegal immigrants receive “$42 billion in welfare a year and the cost of educating the children of illegal aliens’ totals $60 billion per year.”

Americans are “bearing the brunt of the Biden border crisis,” according to the conservative policy organization, citing the slayings of three American women and girls—Laken Riley, Jocelyn Nungaray, Rachel Morin, all thought to have been killed at the hands of illegal immigrants. 

An illegal alien from Venezuela is charged in the February killing of Riley, 22, a nursing student at Augusta University in Georgia, who was bludgeoned to death while she was out for a jog on the University of Georgia campus. 

Illegal aliens Franklin Jose Peña Ramos and Johan Jose Martinez-Rangel have been charged with capital murder in the death of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray in Houston. Jocelyn’s body was found in a creek on June 17. 

Also in June, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador was arrested on charges of raping and killing Maryland mother of five Morin. 

“This memo will remind members of Congress and the American people of the truth,” Teller said. “Harris is the record-setting border czar and everyday Americans—Laken Riley, Jocelyn Nungaray, Rachel Morin, and countless others—have paid the ultimate price for the Biden-Harris administration’s refusal to secure the Southern border and protect innocent Americans.”