VP Kamala Harris and ‘Root Causes’
A brief timeline and a whole lot of confusion. But you can’t blame her for wanting to distance herself from the migrant crisis
By Andrew R. Arthur on July 25, 2024
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Now that Vice President Kamala Harris is the presumptive Democratic nominee in the 2024 presidential race, the role she’s played in the ongoing border crisis is in the spotlight. The Biden/Harris administration has reeled from one crisis to another at the Southwest border, creating an electoral vulnerability for the soon-to-be crowned candidate. Harris-friendly “fact checkers”, however, are now scrambling to distance the new candidate from the administration’s old failures, claiming her role in the administration’s immigration effort was limited to addressing the “root causes” of illegal migration. Here’s a quick timeline, which likely isn’t going to do much to settle the issue of what Vice President Harris did on immigration, and when she did it.
Biden Taps Harris for a New Role. On March 24, 2021 — just over two months after the inauguration — Biden and Harris held a joint public event at the White House, during which Biden explained Harris’ new immigration duties:
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