{"id":1115790,"date":"2021-12-13T19:29:06","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T00:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1115790"},"modified":"2021-12-13T19:29:08","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T00:29:08","slug":"psaki-refuses-to-answer-why-harris-has-been-absent-from-key-role-as-border-czar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/psaki-refuses-to-answer-why-harris-has-been-absent-from-key-role-as-border-czar\/","title":{"rendered":"Psaki Refuses To Answer Why Harris Has Been Absent From Key Role As Border Czar"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpsaki-refuses-to-answer-why-harris-has-been-absent-from-key-role-as-border-czar%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1115790&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki refused to answer on Monday why Vice President Kamala Harris has been absent from her role as border czar and denied the Guatemalan president\u2019s claims that he has only spoken to Harris once since she was named czar.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News White House Correspondent Peter Doocy pressed Psaki on whether Harris was still in charge of addressing the \u201croot causes\u201d of migration from Latin America and if she hadn\u2019t spoken to President Alejandro Giammattei for six months. Psaki replied that the claim was \u201cinaccurate\u201d and called the report itself \u201cstrange.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She further insisted that there has been a \u201crange of conversations,\u201d stating, \u201cI think that\u2019s reflected in our readout we put out last week with our National Security Advisor, with the Vice President\u2019s National Security Advisor, with NSC Senior Director Juan Gonzales. We\u2019ve put out an extensive readout of that just last week and we will continue that high level of engagement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Doocy clarified that Giammattei specifically mentioned Harris as the one he hadn\u2019t spoken to since June.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Giammattei sat down with Fox News\u2019 John Roberts last Wednesday to discuss migration, revealing that he&nbsp; he had spoken directly to Harris only one time when she visited his country in June. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/08\/kamala-harris-spoke-to-giammattei-once-about-illegal-immigration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Harris Is In Charge Of Illegal Immigration \u2018Root Causes\u2019 She Spoke To Guatemalan President Once About It, He Says)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBetween my presidency and the White House, actually, no,\u201d Giammattei <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/guatemalan-president-has-had-zero-contact-with-white-house-since-border-czar-harris-june-meeting-exclusive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stated<\/a> when asked if there had any direct communication with Harris. \u201cI spoke once with Joe Biden because I introduced myself. Then we had the visit of Vice President Harris. And on matters of state, migration, we had visit of Mr. Alejandro Mayorkas. But aside from that direct communication, no, we haven\u2019t had it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harris unveiled a plan for the border crisis in July, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2021\/07\/29\/u-s-strategy-for-addressing-the-root-causes-of-migration-in-central-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stating<\/a>&nbsp;that the \u201cAdministration will consistently engage in the region to address the root causes of migration. We will build on what works, and we will pivot away from what does not work.\u201d She went on to say that the \u201cstrength and security of the United States depends on the implementation of strategies like this one.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/25\/kamala-harris-border-trip\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018It\u2019s Not My First Trip\u2019: Kamala Harris Reportedly Snaps When Asked Why It Took So Long For Her To Visit Border<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Giammattei previously met with National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan in Washington, D.C., which included a discussion of migration, drug trafficking and economic opportunity, the New York Post <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/12\/13\/psaki-says-harris-is-border-czar-after-guatemalan-leader-claims-no-contact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki refused to answer on Monday why Vice President Kamala Harris has been absent from her role as border czar and denied the Guatemalan president\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1115790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1115790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1115790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1115790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1115790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}