‘Border Czar’ Kamala Harris finally visits the border wall three years after becoming VP
Kamala Harris visited the US border with Mexico for the first time as a Democratic presidential candidate on Friday to fire back at critics of her record on migration.
The vice president toured a section of the wall in Douglas, Arizona, with Customs and Border Protection officials and discussed their efforts to combat human trafficking.
Her visit takes place on the same day. Staggering figures show that there are 600,000 criminal immigrants in the United States.
During her trip, she announces that she will not only maintain President Joe Biden’s sweeping asylum policy if she wins the White House, but that she will take even stricter measures.
Harris toured the border wall near Tucson, Arizona, with Border Patrol agents
She will make it harder to lift the emergency authority by requiring the number of average border crossings to fall further – below the current level of 1,500 – before the closure can be lifted.
The crossing came after the Biden administration announced rules that would prevent migrants from seeking asylum if U.S. officials believe the southern border is overwhelmed.
In her remarks, she will also attack Donald Trump for putting his political interests ahead of a public solution, repeating her criticism of him for lobbying his allies in Congress to abolish a border security law because he feared that if If the legislation were successful, it would hurt. his presidential campaign.
The purpose of her visit is to tackle her politically vulnerable issue head-on.
Trump and his fellow Republicans have targeted Harris for months over border policies and the large number of migrants crossing the border.
It was her first visit to the border as a presidential candidate and her first since 2021
Now she will try to turn the tables and take control of the issue.
Trump preemptively attacked her visit Thursday during a news conference in New York when he questioned her decision to travel there.
“Why would she go to the border now and play right into her opponent’s hands?” he asked.
‘She keeps talking about how she supposedly wants to fix the border. We would just ask, ‘Why didn’t she do it four years ago?'” he said.
Harris visited part of the 2,000-mile border in Douglas, Arizona, a key battleground state. She met with border agents and was informed of the situation.
It was her first visit to the border as a presidential candidate, and her first since 2021 when President Joe Biden tasked her with finding the root causes of migration.
Republicans have dubbed her the “border czar,” a title her team disputes.