Vice President Kamala Harris and her team plan to refute that she was ever in charge of the migration crisis at the southern border.
It comes as Republicans are set to make Harris’ role as Joe Biden‘s ‘border czar’ one of their main points of attack in her battle for the White House with Donald Trump.
As Democratic strategists try to reinvent Harris’ record for the campaign a government transparency organization also deleted a webpage which had declared her the most liberal Democrat in the Senate .
Immigration and the border was Harris’ first big task as vice president and House Republicans on Thursday passed a resolution condemning her leadership on the issue.
In March 2021, President Joe Biden and his administration were already struggling with an escalating immigration crisis.
Migrants were pouring across the southern border, detention centers filled up with unaccompanied minors, and stories about ‘kids in cages’ began filtering into the public consciousness.
Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary at the time, repeatedly insisted that it was ‘not a crisis’.
Republicans hammered Biden’s lack of enforcement, demanding that the president take the issue seriously and visit the border.
The White House felt it necessary to do something, some kind of sign to the public and the media that the president was tackling the problem.
To stave off criticism Team Biden offered up Vice President Kamala Harris as the solution.
The president and vice president stood together in the State Dining Room of the White House as Biden announced his intention to put Harris in charge of the migrant crisis.
Her chief goal, Biden stated, was to lead the diplomatic effort with Mexico and Central American countries to address the ‘root causes’ of migration.
‘I can think of nobody who — who is better qualified to do this,’ Biden said, citing Harris’ record as a California Attorney General.
It was not an unfamiliar task, Biden noted, recalling that as vice president, he had stepped up for President Barack Obama to work with leaders to stem migration on the southern border.
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