The Biden administration hasn’t exactly gotten off to the smooth start that they had hoped for. In fact, one could very easily make the argument that they’re having an ostensibly bad time.
Biden and Vice President Harris as currently juggling a number of literal crises, and their responses to the issues have seemed haphazard and peculiar all at once. For instance, in the case of the disastrous surge in illegal immigration into America, Harris has suggested solving the climate crisis as a means of deterring caravans of would-be immigrants from making the journey.
And much like the migrants that Harris wishes to turn around in their tracks, many Americans were starting to feel like the Vice President herself would also never see the border.
Now, over three months since being tapped as Biden’s border czar, Harris has her boarding pass.
Harris, who was tasked by President Joe Biden to lead diplomatic efforts to stem the flow of migrants arriving on the southern border, will visit El Paso, Texas, on Friday, according to sources familiar with the trip. She will be accompanied by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
Symone Sanders, the vice president’s senior adviser and chief spokesperson, confirmed the trip in a statement, saying, “Earlier this year, the President asked the Vice President to oversee our diplomatic efforts to address the root causes of migration from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. As a part of this ongoing work, the Vice President traveled to Guatemala and Mexico earlier this month and will travel to El Paso on Friday.”
Harris and her team have repeatedly pushed back against criticism that neither she nor the president have gone to visit the U.S.-Mexico border, arguing that she is more focused on tackling the destabilizing conditions that are causing thousands of migrants from Central America to head to the border seeking refuge. That was the central message during her first foreign trip, a two-day visit to Mexico and Guatemala earlier this month. While there, Harris met with local officials and implored migrants not to make the journey across Mexico into the United States.
But, as soon as Harris left Guatemala, the president of that nation told the press that it was Joe Biden’s fault that these migrant surges were occurring in the first place.
