(TheRedWire.com) – If Biden’s weakness was his apparent cognitive decline, Harris’ weakness is the Southern border.
On Sunday, Vice President Kamala Harris became the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee when President Joe Biden withdrew from the race.
Since then, more about her lack of oversight of the Southern border has been made public.
Reports surfaced that Harris hadn’t spoken to the current head of Border Patrol, Jason Owens, who became the Border Patrol Chief last year.
Earlier in the year, former Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz also revealed that during his tenure, he never heard from Biden or Harris.
Speaking on “60 Minutes,” Ortiz made the startling revelation that he hadn’t had “one conversation” with either Harris or Biden, despite being chief of Border Patrol during the nation’s ongoing crisis at the Southern border.
In 2021, Biden tasked Harris with leading the diplomatic outreach to tackle the “root causes” of migration to the U.S.
Republicans dubbed her the “border czar,” a moniker the White House rejected.
That was a politically challenging time for Harris, as she struggled with the historic surge in encounters at the Southern border.
As part of her assignment, Harris visited Guatemala and Mexico in 2021, telling migrants considering trekking to the U.S. “do not come.” She also visited the border in El Paso, Texas, during that year; the only visit she made to the Southern border during her time in office.
Despite encounters at the Southern border falling from more than 700,000 in fiscal year 2021 to 330,000 this year, countries in the Northern Triangle are still the top countries from which migrants arrive at the border.
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