{"id":548172,"date":"2021-06-01T13:05:24","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T17:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=548172"},"modified":"2021-06-01T13:05:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T17:05:26","slug":"harris-team-reportedly-panicked-after-biden-gave-her-immigration-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harris-team-reportedly-panicked-after-biden-gave-her-immigration-assignment\/","title":{"rendered":"Harris\u2019 Team Reportedly Panicked After Biden Gave Her Immigration Assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Fharris-team-reportedly-panicked-after-biden-gave-her-immigration-assignment%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=548172&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/kamala-harris-e1622564338378.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Staffers to Vice President Kamala Harris reportedly panicked after President Joe Biden placed her in charge of the administration\u2019s response to the immigration crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The staffers were concerned with political blowback associated with the assignment, CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/06\/01\/politics\/harris-immigration\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a> Tuesday. Harris has not <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/28\/bill-hagerty-letter-kamala-harris-northern-triangle-mexico-guatemala\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visited<\/a> the United States\u2019 southern border, nor has she held a press <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/13\/kamala-harris-southern-border-czar-50-days-conference-migrant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">conference<\/a> since Biden placed her in charge. She is, however, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/14\/vice-president-harris-mexico-guatemala\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">scheduled<\/a> to meet with the presidents of Mexico and Guatemala to address the \u201croot causes\u201d of migration to the United States.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"9.5580524344569\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">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. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oKNJXHoBJH\">https:\/\/t.co\/oKNJXHoBJH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CNN (@CNN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNN\/status\/1399708595323871233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 1, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Harris\u2019 aides were particularly worried that her job would be characterized as a border assignment, according to CNN. They reportedly want it to be viewed solely through the lens of foreign policy. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/05\/john-kennedy-kamala-harris-immigration-czar-el-chapo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018Like Making El Chapo The Drug Czar\u2019: Sen. John Kennedy Questions Choice Of Kamala Harris As Illegal Immigration Head)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When Biden announced Harris\u2019 new role, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2021\/03\/24\/remarks-by-president-biden-and-vice-president-harris-in-a-meeting-on-immigration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">described<\/a> it as \u201clead[ing] our diplomatic effort and work[ing] with those nations to accept returnees, and enhanc[ing] migration enforcement at their borders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden also said that the United States has \u201cto deal with the problem here at home, but also to deal with it now in terms of in-country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An average of 6,000 illegal immigrants <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/05\/03\/politics\/nearly-6000-daily-border-encounters-april\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">attempted<\/a> to cross into the United States each day in April 2021, the most in 20 years. The same month, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/05\/ice-deportations-migrant-surge-biden-record-low\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">deported<\/a> fewer than 3,000 illegal immigrants for the first time since the agency began keeping records.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration is <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/11\/migrant-minors-health-human-services-facilities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">holding<\/a> thousands of unaccompanied minors in facilities run by the Department of Health and Human Services. \u201cThe Biden administration is feverishly putting up these pop-up detention facilities, many of which have no experience working with children,\u201d child psychiatrist Amy Cohen <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/donald-trump-immigration-health-coronavirus-pandemic-government-and-politics-3b4e480c9021e6a8e02313f4c73a497e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told<\/a> the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>Many Republicans have criticized the Biden administration\u2019s immigration policy. Republican Texas Rep. Chip Roy claimed Biden\u2019s proposals \u201creward lawbreakers by prioritizing millions of illegal residents,\u201d in a January <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/28\/chip-roy-how-joe-biden-immigration-plan-puts-americans-last\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">op-ed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Biden \u201csent a message around South and Central America that our border is open. That\u2019s the wrong message, it\u2019s the wrong message for America, and it\u2019s doing a disservice to those people in those caravans who are being abused every single day,\u201d Republican Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/12\/republican-rep-steve-scalise-liz-cheney-kevin-mccarthy-joe-biden-border-policies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staffers to Vice President Kamala Harris reportedly panicked after President Joe Biden placed her in charge of the administration\u2019s response to the immigration crisis.The staffers were concerned with political blowback &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2278777,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/kamala-harris-e1622564338378.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Harris\u2019 Team Reportedly Panicked After Biden Gave Her Immigration Assignment","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/kamala-harris-e1622564338378.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Harris\u2019 Team Reportedly Panicked After Biden Gave Her Immigration Assignment","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548172","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}