Report: VP Harris Avoiding Border Crisis Because It Could Be Politically Fraught
Edwin Mora 3 Jun 2021
Vice President Kamala Harris and her staff are trying to avoid her assigned mission to tackle the growing humanitarian crisis at the U.S. southern border because it could be politically fraught, CNN reported this week.
Some unnamed sources indicated to the network Harris and her team are concerned that being linked to the border crisis could make her a scapegoat for Republicans for all the problems at the border, potentially hurting her chances to become president.
On March 24, President Joe Biden tasked Harris with leading the White House response to deal with the migration challenge at the U.S. southern border. He also charged her with pressuring Mexico and the Central American Northern Triangle countries of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador to strengthen their international boundaries to stem the flow of migrants heading to the United States.
Biden also charged Harris with overseeing diplomatic efforts in the Northern Triangle, the primary source of the migrants reaching the U.S. southern border, by developing and implementing a long-term strategy to address the root causes of migration from those nations.
Despite her multi-prong assignment, Harris has refused to visit the U.S. southern border despite a bipartisan push for her to do so, abandoning her task to lead the White House response to the crisis developing there.
Instead, Harris and her team have repeatedly stressed her task is only to address the root causes of migration, claiming President Joe Biden “mischaracterized” her mission, CNN noted.
Biden’s March 24 announcement outlining Harris’ mission appeared to trigger “panic” among the VP’s team, who believed being linked to the border crisis could be “politically damaging,” one of the unnamed White House officials told CNN.
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