The American Vice President is NOT in charge of the border immigration situation ….
Nope…
She’s the US rep to the diplomatic side of things …
The border problems belong to Homeland Sec Mayorkas who was supposed to report to Susan Rice, director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, who now sits in the office of the guy who ran Trump immigration and others….
Vice President Kamala Harris and her team are staring down attempts to make her the face of the Biden administration’s response to the crisis at the border, a little more than a week after being assigned a role that positions her in the center of one of the administration’s most divisive issues.
The Biden administration’s policy toward Central America is starting to take shape as Vice President Harris takes the lead on a potentially treacherous portfolio that straddles diplomacy and migration.
Harris and other administration officials on Thursday laid out a new approach to the region that will try to tackle both the challenges created by Central American governments and why so many of their citizens are deciding to make the trek to the U.S.
“The bottom line is that this initiative, from my perspective, must be effective and relevant to the underlying issue, which is addressing the acute and the root causes of migration away from that region,” Harris told a group of philanthropists working in the region….
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The Biden administration’s strategy toward Central America has been relatively well-received by regional experts, but the biggest critics are on the other side of the aisle on Capitol Hill. Republican lawmakers have centered many of their political attacks on Harris, increasingly trying to make her the face of the border crisis.
The administration also came under fire this month from fellow Democrats and immigration advocates after it announced a continuation of former President Trump‘s cap on refugees. The White House later reversed courseand said it would set a new, higher cap in May.
But when it comes to the current migrant surge at the border, some congressional Democrats still point the finger at the previous administration…