In the run-up to November’s election, Vice President Kamala Harris is attempting to rewrite history and absolve herself of her administration’s policy of facilitating mass illegal migration into the U.S. through reckless releases of aliens caught at the border and bogus alien “parole” programs.

Against much existing evidence, a new ad her campaign is running claims Harris is a border hawk, touting her past prosecutions of gang members and recent support of a twice-defeated Senate border bill that actually would have codified into law many of the Biden-Harris administration’s open-border policies.

Though in 2017, Harris said, “An undocumented immigrant is not a criminal,” her campaign staff recently told Fox News, “the vice president’s position is the same as the administration’s—unauthorized border crossings are illegal.”

In an Aug. 29 interview on CNN, Dana Bash asked Harris about her change of mind. The vice president said, “I believe there should be consequence” for entering the U.S. illegally, because “we have laws.”

Indeed, we do. Our laws say aliens entering the U.S. illegally “shall be detained” pending their immigration court hearings. But under the Biden-Harris administration, they are caught and almost all are then immediately released, often with federally funded tickets to wherever in this country they want to go.

So, what “consequence” did Harris have in mind? Dana Bash didn’t follow up, but if the past three years are any guide, Harris does not seriously contemplate any more enforcement than the feckless norm of the last three years.

Meanwhile, amid all the smoke and mirrors of a hot electoral campaign, the Biden-Harris mass parole programs continue to bring in around 70,000 inadmissible aliens a month.

But in early August, the Department of Homeland Security paused one program that allows in 30,000 inadmissible aliens a month from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. What was the reason they paused it?

It wasn’t because it was against the law and flouted the clear intent of........

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