Kamala Harris to finally visit border amid ongoing migrant crisis: report

By Emily Jacobs

Vice President Kamala Harris will visit the border this week amid the historic surge of illegal immigration under her watch as border czar, more than three months since she was tapped for the role, according to a report.

Citing sources familiar with the trip, Politico reported Wednesday that Harris will travel to El Paso, Texas, on Friday alongside Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

Reps for Harris did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment on the trip, nor did DHS.

Harris, who visited Guatemala and Mexico earlier this month as part of her first foreign visit in office, was dogged for her entire trip by questions about going to surveil the situation at the US-Mexico border in person.

Vice President Kamala will be visiting the US Border.

Her answer to NBC News’ Lester Holt on the matter gained considerable negative attention.

“At some point, you know, we are going to the border,” a defensive Harris told Holt on “Today” in Guatemala — 1,308 miles away from the US-Mexico crossing.

Migrants from Central America, who were previously expelled from the U.S. and sent back to Mexico under Title 42, walk across the Paso del Norte international border bridge to continue their asylum request in the United States, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico June 15, 2021.

“We’ve been to the border. So this whole thing about the border, we’ve been to the border,” Harris said, to which Holt replied, “You haven’t been to the border.”

Harris, seeming to laugh at her own joke, responded: “And I haven’t been to Europe. And I mean, I don’t understand the point that you’re making. I’m not discounting the importance of the border.”

The Biden administration’s undoing of former President Donald Trump’s border policies has prompted a flood of Central American and Mexican illegal migrants at the US border, including thousands of unescorted children.

Young unaccompanied migrants being held in a faculty in Texas.

Central Americans looking for refuge from the Northern Triangle countries — Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras — have taken these policy moves, as well as the overwhelmingly more welcoming tone from Democrats, as a sign that Biden is inviting them to cross the border.

Insisting that the border was not facing a crisis, Mayorkas said in early March that the problems the agency faced should be blamed on the previous administration.

The data, however, overwhelmingly shows that migrants are flooding the border because they believe Biden will welcome them with open arms, with over 170,000 illegal crossings a month.

As the crisis heated up, Biden tapped his vice president to address the diplomatic measures related to its “root causes.” However, despite intense pressure, she has yet to visit and surveil the situation for herself.

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