On March 24, 2021, Axios published a story with the headline "Biden Puts Harris in Charge of Border Crisis." Politics reporter Stef W. Kight informed us that the vice president would be "addressing the migrant surge at the U.S.-Mexico border" and that Harris would "lead efforts with Mexico and the Northern Triangle (Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador) to manage the flow of unaccompanied children and migrant families arriving at the border in numbers not seen since a surge in 2019." Lest anyone wonder whether this was a big job with a great deal of responsibility, a White House official told reporters: "President Biden said during the transition, whatever the most urgent need, he would turn to the vice president, and today he is turning to the vice president."
From the link the cited article noted...
Harris border confusion haunts her new campaign (July 24, 2024)
www.axios.com
... In early 2021, President Biden enlisted Vice President Kamala Harris to help with a slice of the migration issue " a move that has turned into one of the newly presumptive presidential nominee's first campaign headaches.
Why it matters: Confusion around the VP's exact role, early media misfires and the rapidly changing regional migration crisis has made the issue a top target for the GOP trying to define their new opponent. And it has become even more critical for Harris to find a clear border message, fast.
The administration's early infighting, blame-shifting and indecision around their border response does not help her, either.
Driving the news: In the past few days, the Trump campaign and Republicans have tagged Harris repeatedly with the "border czar" title -- which she never actually had.
- - - "Harris was appointed 'border czar' in March of 2021, and since that time, millions and millions of illegal aliens have invaded our country and countless Americans have been killed by migrant crime because of her willful demolition of American borders and laws," Trump told reporters on a call on Tuesday.
- - - House GOP Chair Elise Stefanik introduced a resolution condemning the administration and its "Border Czar" for failing to secure the U.S.
- - - Harris supporters have rushed to her defense. "She assumed the role that Vice President Biden had during the Obama administration, which is diplomacy with Central America," former DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson told Fox News on Tuesday. "She is not the border czar." ...
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