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萨拉萨尔批评哈里斯在移民问题上无所作为 尽管她“在白宫隔壁任职近四年”
作者：罗伯特·麦格里维 福克斯新闻
乔·拜登总统任期内的前美国驻墨西哥大使肯·萨拉萨尔透露，他曾考虑在2024年参选总统，挑战自己的前上司。
据Politico获取的新书节选内容，萨拉萨尔在拜登2024年7月的辩论表现惨败后曾对自己说：“我应该参选总统。”
萨拉萨尔还称，他曾恳求设立边境事务专员一职，并早在初期就建议拜登将美国边境局势称为危机。
“政界未能认清边境危机的现实，以及这会对2024大选民主党选情造成的政治影响。
移民与边境安全如何主导2024年大选并决定选举结果
2023年1月8日，美国总统乔·拜登抵达墨西哥桑潘戈的费利佩·安赫莱斯国际机场时，受到墨西哥总统安德烈斯·曼努埃尔·洛佩斯·奥夫拉多尔、墨西哥外交部长马塞洛·埃布拉德和美国驻墨西哥大使肯·萨拉萨尔的迎接。（费尔南多·利亚诺/美联社）
萨拉萨尔称，政府内部官员一直在使用“危机”一词，“即便当时白宫拒绝承认这是危机”。
当萨拉萨尔建议时任国土安全部长亚历杭德罗·马约尔卡斯使用该词时，马约尔卡斯显然对他说：“肯，我已经有一堆事要处理了。我正要因为这些边境问题遭到弹劾。共和党人盯上我了。”
据Politico报道，尽管萨拉萨尔组建了团队、起草了总统竞选纲领，但最终并未宣布参选。
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萨拉萨尔原本计划在拜登退选后加入竞选，但民主党并未举行公开初选，而是单方面直接圈定副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯作为该党总统候选人，萨拉萨尔称这一决定是“错误”。
档案照片：前美国大使肯·萨拉萨尔2023年12月6日在墨西哥城发表讲话。
萨拉萨尔批评哈里斯在被指派管控移民潮后，在边境问题上无所作为。哈里斯被任命为边境事务专员——这一职位正是萨拉萨尔曾推动拜登政府设立的，但他对哈里斯在该职位上的表现并不满意。
“但遗憾的是，她在这一职位上的任命并未对移民流动产生任何影响，”他写道。
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“哈里斯被指派负责解决移民的‘根源问题’，但许多人都认为她表现不力，”他继续写道。
“无论出于何种原因，她都未能在边境和移民危机问题上提供帮助，尽管她已经在白宫隔壁任职近四年。”
2025年1月20日，美国总统乔·拜登与副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯在华盛顿特区美国国会圆形大厅出席唐纳德·特朗普的就职典礼。（索尔·洛布/彭博社/Getty Images图片库）
萨拉萨尔是出生于科罗拉多州的墨西哥裔律师，也是该州首位西班牙裔参议员，他称赞拜登最终在2024年有效关闭边境的决定，但承认为时已晚。
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“这本该是一个证明正确的时刻——毕竟美国选民一直在要求在边境问题上采取行动——但为时已晚，失控的边境画面将占据总统大选最后几个月的新闻版面，”他在书中写道，据Politico报道。
萨拉萨尔在其名为《边境地带：我为包容性美国而战》的新书中还透露，他一直在向潜在的民主党总统候选人提供建议，推销他的“边境地带纲领”——这一移民政策称美国移民体系已经“千疮百孔，必须加以改革”，据Politico报道。
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据Politico报道，他已经会见了亚利桑那州民主党参议员马克·凯利和鲁文·加列戈，并计划会见伊利诺伊州民主党州长JB·普利茨克。
2022年6月9日，亚利桑那州民主党众议员鲁文·加列戈在雷伯恩大厦主持众议院军事委员会情报与特别行动小组委员会对2023财年《国防授权法案》的 markup 会议。2020年11月3日，亚利桑那州民主党参议员马克·凯利在图森市国会酒店的选举夜活动上向支持者发表讲话。（汤姆·威廉姆斯/CQ-滚球通讯社/Getty Images图片库，考特尼·佩德罗萨/Getty Images图片库）
福克斯新闻数字频道已联系萨拉萨尔、普利茨克、加列戈和凯利置评。
Former Biden ambassador considered running against him over border mess, bashes Kamala in new book
June 12, 2026 8:13am EDT / Fox News
Salazar criticized Harris as ineffective on migration despite sitting ‘next door to the Oval Office for almost four years’
By Robert McGreevy, Fox News
Ken Salazar, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico under President Joe Biden, considered running for president against his former boss in 2024, he revealed.
“I should run for president,” Salazar told himself, after Biden’s disastrous July 2024 debate performance, according to a book excerpt obtained by Politico.
Salazar also claimed that he begged for a border czar and early on advised Biden to refer to the U.S. border situation as a crisis.
“There was political failure to understand the reality of the crisis at the border, and the political consequence it would have on Democrats in the 2024 election.
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President Joe Biden is greeted by Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard, and U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar upon his arrival at Felipe Angeles International Airport in Zumpango, Mexico, on Jan. 8, 2023.(Fernando Llano/AP)
Salazar claimed that within the administration, officials used the word “crisis” all the time, “even if at that time the White House refused to acknowledge it as such.”
When Salazar advised then-Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to use the word, Mayorkas apparently told him: “Ken, I have a lot on my plate already. I’m about to be impeached for all this border stuff. The Republicans have it out for me.”
Salazar never ended up declaring himself as a candidate despite recruiting a team and drafting a presidential platform, Politico reported.
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He had planned to throw his name into consideration when Biden dropped out, but the Democratic Party never held open primaries, instead choosing to coronate Vice President Kamala Harris as the party’s candidate unilaterally, a decision Salazar called “a mistake,” per Politico.
FILE – Former U.S. Ambassador Ken Salazar speaks in Mexico City on Dec. 6, 2023.
Salazar criticized Harris’ action, or lack thereof, on the border after she was tasked with stemming the flow of migration. Harris was dubbed the border czar, a position Salazar had pushed for the Biden White House to create, but he was unhappy with the nature of her work in the position.
“But sadly, her designation in this position was having no effect on migration flows,” he wrote.
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“Harris had been placed in charge of getting at the ‘root causes’ of migration, but many felt she had been ineffective,” he continued.
“For whatever reason, she had been unable to help with the border and migration crisis, even though she’d sat next door to the Oval Office for almost four years.”
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris attend Donald Trump’s inauguration ceremony in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 20, 2025.(Saul Loeb/Pool/Getty Images)
Salazar, a Colorado-born lawyer of Mexican descent and his state’s first Hispanic senator, praised Biden’s eventual decision to effectively shut down the border in 2024, but acknowledged it was too late.
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“This should have been a moment of vindication — after all, American voters were demanding action on the border — but it was too late, and images of an out-of-control border would dominate the closing months of the presidential election,” he wrote, per Politico.
Salazar also revealed in his book, titled “Borderlands: My Fight For An Inclusive America,” that he’s been giving out advice to potential Democratic presidential candidates, pitching them on his “borderlands platform,” an immigration policy that he says acknowledges the U.S. immigration system is broken and “must be fixed,” according to Politico.
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He has already met with Arizona Sens. Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego, both Democrats, and plans to meet with Illinois’ Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker, Politico reported.
Rep. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., conducts the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Intelligence and Special Operations markup of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 in the Rayburn Building on June 9, 2022. Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., speaks to supporters during an election night event at Hotel Congress in Tucson, Arizona, on Nov. 3, 2020.(Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call/Getty Images, Courtney Pedroza/Getty Images)
Fox News Digital contacted Salazar, Pritzker, Gallego and Kelly for comment.
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