PITTSBURGH — Mark Cuban admitted Saturday that the Biden-Harris administration should have acted “sooner” to fix the border crisis — while he was stumping for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in Pittsburgh.
“I would have handled immigration differently,” the business mogul said on the campaign trail on behalf of the Democratic presidential nominee.
“And honestly, I think if they could do it all over again — and they won’t say it necessarily — they would handle it differently as well.”
While speaking with small Pennsylvanian business owners during a town hall, Cuban said he ultimately supports how the Biden-Harris administration has handled the migrant crisis — including how nearly 1 million migrants were given “quiet amnesty” over the last three years.
This week, the administration ordered ICE to speed up deportations in what critics have blasted as an attempt to clean up Harris’ image ahead of the election.
“I would have done what they have done, but I might have done it a little bit sooner. That’s all. I think they handled it the right way. It just probably could have been sooner,” Cuban said.
“I’m just saying, based off of what I know, they would have been in a different position if they were done a little bit sooner.”
The “Shark Tank” superstar pointed out that Harris, 60, has a precise plan to ease the migration crisis, but is much less extreme than Donald Trump’s deportation policies.
Harris would allow migrants to stay in the country under certain circumstances, including length of time already spent in the US, while Trump, 78, calls for mass deportations — a move that Cuban called “the ultimate business killer.”
“When Donald Trump talks about deporting people, he means it. He means it’s not a threat, and he doesn’t think about it from a small business perspective at all. These are your employees. These are their family. These are the people you love that you’ve worked with for 20 years,” Cuban said.
When asked by a restaurant employee what he should tell his Trump-supporting co-workers, Cuban implied mass deportations would gut their staff.
“if the deportations happen, what do you think is gonna happen at the restaurant? It’s gonna be brutal,” Cuban alleged.
He also pointed out that Trump’s mass deportation proposals would destroy families across the US.
“You have people who are grandparents that have been here 30 years, that have four American children, and who knows how many American grandchildren? How do you treat them? And more importantly, what’s the process?” said Cuban,
Under Trump, agents would demand proof of citizenship at any cost, Cuban alleged, including “going in there and dragging people out of their home. Out of their homes. Can you say for certain that’s off the table with Donald Trump?”
“You can’t say that he’s not going to have checkbooks outside of, you know, on the road to see who’s legal, who’s not. Doesn’t that scare you?
