Kamala Harris team is trying to distance the vice president from the border crisis after panicking when she was given the assignment by President Biden, according to a new report.
Vice President Harris’ team tries to distance her from fraught situation at the border
In the weeks since the President asked her to take charge of immigration from Central America, Vice President Kamala Harris and her staff have sought to make one thing clear: She does not manage the southern border.
Two White House officials familiar with the dynamic said Harris and her aides have emphasized internally that they want to focus on conditions in Central America that push migrants to the US southern border, as President Joe Biden tasked her to do. A record number of unaccompanied children crossed into the US this spring, and the throngs of desperate minors present a heart-rending problem as well as a political one.
Some are welcomed, most turned away, as haphazard immigration policies play out along the border
Paradoxical scenes play out daily along this remote stretch of the Texas-Mexico border from Ojinaga to Del Rio and Eagle Pass.
A Texas Department of Public safety trooper helps Belkis Salas of Venezuela out of the Rio Grande near Del Rio on Friday, April 30, 2021. Salas struggled to cross the river, falling halfway through and being pulled up by her son-in-law and a smuggler. Many Venezuelans are being welcomed for asylum processing on one part of the border while Central Americans are being quickly expelled on other parts of the border.(Jessica Phelps / San Antonio Express-News)
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The past week was dominated by President Joe Biden s first joint address to Congress and the subsequent fallout, including Sen. Tim Scott s rebuttal and reactions from the likes of former President Donald Trump. It also saw the New York apartment of Trump associate Rudy Giuliani raided. Here are the quotes of the week.
“Our plan worked, but the last administration shut it down.”
President Joe Biden during his joint address to Congress, taking a swipe at the Trump administration over his charge that it ended effective Obama-Biden administration immigration policies
“As I stand here tonight, just one day shy of the 100th day of my administration, 100 days since I took the oath of office, lifted my hand off our family Bible, and inherited a nation in crisis: the worst pandemic in a century, the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War. Now, after just 100 days, I can report to the nation:
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