Vice President Kamala Harris and her squad scheme to refute that she was ever successful complaint of nan migration situation astatine nan confederate border.
It comes arsenic Republicans are group to make Harris' domiciled arsenic Joe Biden's 'border czar' 1 of their main points of onslaught successful her conflict for nan White House pinch Donald Trump.
As Democratic strategists effort to reinvent Harris' grounds for nan run a authorities transparency statement besides deleted a webpage which had declared her nan most wide Democrat successful nan Senate .
Immigration and nan separator was Harris' first large task arsenic vice president and House Republicans connected Thursday passed a solution condemning her activity connected nan issue.
US Vice President Kamala Harris (L) and US President Joe Biden
A group of forbidden migrants standard a obstruction adjacent Eagle Pass, Texas
In March 2021, President Joe Biden and his management were already struggling pinch an escalating migration crisis.
Migrants were pouring crossed nan confederate border, detention centers filled up pinch unaccompanied minors, and stories astir ‘kids successful cages’ began filtering into nan nationalist consciousness.
Jen Psaki, the White House property caput astatine nan time, repeatedly insisted that it was ‘not a crisis’.
Republicans hammered Biden’s deficiency of enforcement, demanding that nan president return nan rumor earnestly and sojourn nan border.
The White House felt it basal to do something, immoderate benignant of motion to nan nationalist and nan media that nan president was tackling nan problem.
To stave disconnected disapproval Team Biden offered up Vice President Kamala Harris arsenic nan solution.
The president and vice president stood together successful nan State Dining Room of nan White House arsenic Biden announced his volition to put Harris successful complaint of nan migrant crisis.
Her main goal, Biden stated, was to lead nan negotiated effort pinch Mexico and Central American countries to reside nan ‘root causes’ of migration.
‘I tin deliberation of cipher who — who is amended qualified to do this,’ Biden said, citing Harris’ grounds arsenic a California Attorney General.
It was not an unfamiliar task, Biden noted, recalling that arsenic vice president, he had stepped up for President Barack Obama to activity pinch leaders to stem migration connected nan confederate border.
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris waves arsenic as she boards Air Force Two
US Vice President Kamala Harris (R) tours nan El Paso US Customs and Border Protection Central Processing Center,
Migrants effort to transverse nan Rio Grande from Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, Mexico, connected February 29, 2024
But Biden knew he was throwing Harris into a activity vacuum, erstwhile he had nary liking successful getting progressive personally successful a politically fraught situation.
‘I gave you a reliable job,’ Biden said, looking astatine Harris who smiled wryly astatine him. ‘And you’re smiling, but there’s nary 1 amended tin of trying to shape this for us.’
Republicans could not judge that Biden had given nan task of securing nan separator to Harris, and nan vice president and her squad were profoundly resentful of what Biden’s unit had done to her politically.
Although Harris tried to narrowly specify her domiciled successful nan crisis, media outlets correctly recognized what Biden was doing.
'Biden makes Harris nan constituent personification connected migration issues amid separator surge' publication a header successful Politico.
'Biden taps VP Harris to lead consequence to separator challenges,' nan Associated Press wrote.
'Biden puts Harris successful complaint of separator crisis,' publication nan header of an article by Axios.
To many, Harris’ first arena connected nan rumor demonstrated she was unprepared to grip nan crisis, arsenic she cited nan show "Cheers" to make her constituent connected migration.
‘You know, to usage a building from an aged tv show, "Cheers", you know, “where everybody knows your name,”' she said, reciting words from nan show’s taxable song. She explained, “Most group don’t want to time off home.”
Republicans saw Harris’ weakness and began driving location her failures.
House Minority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La. put Harris’ look connected a carton of beverage and described her arsenic ‘missing astatine nan border.’
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks astir nan confederate separator during a gathering pinch President Joe Biden
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris walks pinch Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Spokesperson Symone Sanders
Migrants making their measurement into nan United States on June 5, 2024
Biden did not help. After saddling Harris pinch nan politically explosive issue, he utilized an arena pinch legislature Democrats to opportunity that Harris would do a ‘hell of a job'.
But nan Vice President was not having it. She interrupted Biden to punctual him that she was only handling nan 'root causes' of migration.
Facing ongoing pressure, Harris was sent to Guatemala to big an arena connected addressing nan situation and telling migrants not to travel to nan United States.
‘Do not come. Do not come,’ she said repeatedly. ‘The United States will proceed to enforce our laws and unafraid our border. I judge if you travel to our border, you will beryllium turned back,’ she said.
However, millions of migrants did not listen.
Harris was besides beset pinch disapproval aft she dismissed nan thought of visiting nan separator successful bizarre manner during an question and reply pinch NBC's Lester Holt.
Asked astir not having been to nan separator she said: '...And I haven't been to Europe. I don't understand nan constituent you're making.'
She laughed astatine nan question.
Lester Holt pushes Kamala Harris connected why she hadn't visited nan border, to which she replied: 'And I haven't been to Europe'
United States Vice President Kamala Harris speaks to nan media
Vice President Kamala Harris and her squad now reason that Harris was not nan 'border czar' contempt respective attempts by nan management to get her to tackle nan migration issue
In September 2022, Harris was sent by nan management to talk astir nan rumor connected Meet nan Press.
When anchor Chuck Todd asked Harris whether she believed nan separator was secure, she replied, 'We have a unafraid border successful that that is simply a privilege for immoderate nation, including ours and our administration.'
Republicans said that was not existent and many times challenged her claim.
As Republicans ramped up disapproval of Harris, and Biden, for refusing to sojourn nan border, nan president's squad yet decided to nonstop Harris to merchandise immoderate of nan pressure.
Republican statesmanlike campaigner and erstwhile U.S. President Donald Trump visits nan U.S.-Mexico separator astatine Eagle Pass, Texas, arsenic seen from Piedras Negras, Mexico, February 29, 2024
U.S. President Donald Trump visits nan US-Mexico separator obstruction successful Otay Mesa, California connected September 18, 2019
In June 2021 she visited nan separator - days aft erstwhile President Donald Trump scheduled a sojourn to item nan administration's failures.
Harris said: 'I'm gladsome to beryllium here. It was ever nan scheme to travel here.'
Trump declared victory.
He said: 'After months of ignoring nan situation astatine nan Southern Border, it is awesome that we sewage Kamala Harris to yet spell and spot nan tremendous demolition and decease that they’ve created.'