Represented to “fix” the rising migrant crisis, Vice President Kamala Harris has no plans to visit the US-Mexico border – but Donald Trump may go there “soon,” according to an aide to the former president. .
Harris was called on by President Biden to lead negotiations with Latin American countries over the crisis earlier this week and is now focused on diplomatic efforts to reduce the tide of Central American immigrants seeking refuge in the United States.
“The vice president is not crossing the border,” spokeswoman Symone Sanders told reporters on Friday.
“You can expect her to speak with leaders in the region in the near future,” said Sanders.
Meanwhile, the ex-president is considering a visit to the overloaded border “soon” when he envisions a comeback on the public stage – but first he wants to give Biden space to “fail on his own,” said Trump adviser Jason Miller. , on “The Michael Berry Show” Thursday.
“I think there is a very fine line between denouncing someone about policies and then appearing to be doing something that is showboating or giving Joe Biden the opportunity to point out and say, ‘See this is not serious, look at President Trump in building borders a scene out of that, ”” Miller said on the podcast.
“And not immediately, but I can see a trip at some point in the future here. But it is something that President Trump is really concerned about, ”said Miller.
The White House is supporting a plan to send $ 7 billion to Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras to help alleviate the poverty and violence that has caused refugees to flee en masse from the countries of the Northern Triangle.
Federal agents arrested more than 100,000 people at the border in the past month alone, the highest number in two years. President Biden has warned migrants not to come, citing COVID-19 restrictions.
Many did not heed the message, hoping for better chances of obtaining asylum under the new administration, after Biden reversed Trump’s “Stay in Mexico” policy and halted the construction of a border wall.
Unaccompanied minors are not being rejected, however, with some 12,000 children currently in the custody of the Department of Health and Human Services, according to a report.
President Biden is also in no hurry to head south; he said earlier this week that he plans to take a personal look at the situation “at some point”.
While Washington dignitaries keep their distance from the border, the Post documented conditions closely in a series of reports on the harrowing journey made by migrants, who told stories of being arrested for rescue in hiding places in Texas by unscrupulous smugglers.
Wired AP