{"id":571669,"date":"2021-06-23T12:51:10","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T16:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=571669"},"modified":"2021-06-23T12:51:14","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T16:51:14","slug":"report-kamala-harris-to-visit-the-border-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-kamala-harris-to-visit-the-border-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: Kamala Harris To Visit The Border \u2018This Week\u2019"},"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\">18<\/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%2Freport-kamala-harris-to-visit-the-border-this-week%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=571669&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\/GettyImages-1233251575-scaled-e1623170232157.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Vice President Kamala Harris is scheduled to visit the U.S.-Mexico border \u201cthis week\u201d after declining to go for months, Politico reported Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The White House has not formally announced the trip and Harris\u2019 office has declined to comment, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/06\/23\/kamala-harris-is-set-to-visit-the-border-495684\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">she is expected<\/a> to visit the border Friday in El Paso, Texas, alongside Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Harris\u2019 trip will come 93 days after President Joe Biden appointed her to lead the administration\u2019s response to the ongoing immigration crisis.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\" readability=\"9.4185303514377\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">New: VP Kamala Harris is heading to U.S. southern border on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Her planned stop in El Paso comes after months of resisting calls from Republicans to make the trip. And it\u2019s days before Trump is set to visit the border. via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dlippman?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@dlippman<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JCTDFgd66J\">https:\/\/t.co\/JCTDFgd66J<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sabrina Rodr\u00edguez (@sabrod123) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sabrod123\/status\/1407733148553711622?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 23, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Harris\u2019 trip would come just before former President Donald Trump\u2019s own visit to the border, which is expected to come the following week. House Republicans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/06\/23\/house-republicans-trumps-border-trip-495647\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">have already announced plans<\/a> to join Trump at the rally, where he is expected to hammer Biden\u2019s immigration policies. Immigration has continued to be Biden\u2019s least successful policy area, with polls <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/22\/voters-want-joe-biden-tougher-immigration-policies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">showing large majorities of Americans<\/a> preferring Trump\u2019s border policies.<\/p>\n<p>Harris <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/08\/kamala-harris-deflects-lester-holt-border-guatemala\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">has insisted<\/a> for months that her role in immigration response does not pertain to the border itself, but instead focuses on diplomatic efforts aimed at ending \u201croot causes\u201d of migration from Central America.<\/p>\n<p>Harris made her inaugural foreign policy trip to Guatemala and Mexico in early June, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/08\/harris-south-america-guatemala-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">facing widespread criticism<\/a> from both Republicans and Democrats. NBC News host Lester Holt pressed her at the time on why she has yet to visit the border.<\/p>\n<h4>WATCH:<\/h4>\n<p>\u201cDo you have any plans to visit the border?\u201d Holt asked at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt some point. You know, we are going to the border. We\u2019ve been to the border. So, this whole thing about the border&nbsp;<span class=\"s1\">\u2014&nbsp;<\/span>we\u2019ve been to the border. We\u2019ve been to the border,\u201d Harris responded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou haven\u2019t been to the border,\u201d Holt interjected.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\" readability=\"23.193277310924\">\n<p>\u201cI care about what\u2019s happening at the border. I\u2019m in Guatemala because my focus is dealing with the root causes of migration,\u201d Harris continued. \u201cThere may be some who think that that is not important but it is my firm belief that if we care about what\u2019s happening at the border, we better care about the root causes and address them, and so that\u2019s what I\u2019m doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/09\/illegal-border-crossing-may-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/09\/illegal-border-crossing-may-2021\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1624496455358000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHS-gVtze-uPE476khjIUgqahhANQ\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;more than 180,000 border apprehensions in May, the most recent month with available data. The number is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/newsroom\/national-media-release\/cbp-announces-april-2021-operational-update\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/newsroom\/national-media-release\/cbp-announces-april-2021-operational-update&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1624496455358000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGSLN9YPFyjM4o9el-phWWJYxajPQ\">a 21-year record<\/a> for monthly apprehensions. The record was previously broken in both March and April of this year, which saw 173,000 and 178,000 apprehensions, respectively.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President Kamala Harris is scheduled to visit the U.S.-Mexico border \u201cthis week\u201d after declining to go for months, Politico reported Wednesday.The White House has not formally announced the trip &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1888355,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571669","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=571669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1888355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}