{"id":828523,"date":"2021-09-29T17:13:40","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T21:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=828523"},"modified":"2021-09-29T17:13:43","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T21:13:43","slug":"white-house-struggles-to-define-kamala-harris-border-czar-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-struggles-to-define-kamala-harris-border-czar-role\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Struggles To Define Kamala Harris\u2019 Border Czar Role"},"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\">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%2Fwhite-house-struggles-to-define-kamala-harris-border-czar-role%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=828523&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--><p>The White House is struggling to define Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 \u201cborder czar\u201d role as the immigration crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border continues to worsen.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden tapped Harris to handle the border issue in March, and since then she has argued that the only way to reduce illegal immigration is to address its \u201croot causes,\u201d namely poverty and violence in Central and South American countries. Her first attempt to address the crisis with a trip to Guatemala and Mexico <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/08\/harris-south-america-guatemala-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">met with widespread criticism<\/a> from Republicans and some fellow Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Her last major action with respect to immigration came with the unveiling of strategy to address illegal immigration in late July. The plan focused on cutting down the incentives migrants have for traveling to the U.S. in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Central America, the root causes of migration run deep \u2014 and migration from the region has a direct impact on the United States,\u201d&nbsp;<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\">Harris stated regarding the plan<\/a>. \u201cFor that reason, our nation must consistently engage with the region to address the hardships that cause people to leave Central America and come to our border.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The plan included neither a detailed timeline nor a list of specific policy actions, however, instead mainly focusing on the importance of combating poverty, corruption and crime in South and Central American countries.<\/p>\n<p>Monthly border crossings have continued to escalate, but Harris\u2019 only engagement with the crisis in recent days was a statement condemning U.S. Border Patrol officers for their alleged treatment of Haitian migrants. The media widely accused officers of using whips to stop a group of roughly 10,000 Haitian migrants crossing the border into Texas, but the \u201cwhips\u201d were <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/27\/new-york-times-corrects-claim-border-patrol-whipped-haitian-migrants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">revealed to be reins<\/a> for the mounted officers\u2019 horses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we all know it evoked images of some of the worst moments of our history where that kind of behavior has been used against the indigenous people of our country, has been used against African Americans during times of slavery,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/24\/kamala-harris-the-view\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said in an ABC interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7222174\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"38\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7222174\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>ATLANTA, GA \u2013 JUNE 18: U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks with the media at Hartsfield Jackson International Airport before boarding Air Force Two back to Washington DC on June 18, 2021 in Atlanta, Georgia. Vice President Harris is visiting Atlanta as part of a nationwide tour to encourage Americans to get vaccinated. (Photo by Megan Varner\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Harris\u2019 absence on the border issue continued Wednesday, as she hosted a meeting with female small business owners to discuss the economy. She did not mention immigration or the U.S.-Mexico border, nor did she take questions from the press before or after the event. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/09\/biden-harris-white-house-mexico-immigration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: White House Reportedly \u2018Perplexed\u2019 By Kamala Harris\u2019 First Foreign Policy Trip)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo today I have asked American business leaders to join me here to have a discussion about the economy in our country, and one of the most important foundations of our economy in this country are our small business, our small business leaders,\u201d Harris said at the meeting, going on to mark the benefits of the Biden administration\u2019s American Rescue Plan.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans on Capitol Hill have taken advantage of Harris\u2019 seeming hesitation to engage with the border crisis. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.republicanleader.gov\/wheres-vice-president-kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">published an open letter<\/a> on Friday titled \u201cWhere\u2019s Vice President Kamala Harris?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSix months into her appointment, we have a humanitarian and security crisis at the border with no leadership from the official tasked with \u2018stemming the migration\u2019 of immigrants across our border,\u201d McCarthy wrote. \u201cAs \u2018Border Czar\u2019, Kamala Harris has done nothing to help stop the border crisis. She has let down the local leaders and our Border Patrol agents who have been forced to deal with the fallout of this administration\u2019s bad policies. Even after months of being named to this position, this administration still has no clear plan to address the situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"6.0225563909774\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Where is the Border Czar, Vice President Kamala Harris? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5dI5BST1pg\">pic.twitter.com\/5dI5BST1pg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kevin McCarthy (@GOPLeader) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GOPLeader\/status\/1441143360786354176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 23, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Harris\u2019 office did not respond by the time of publication when asked how she was addressing the border situation. Her office also did not provide an update on how her long-term solution of addressing the \u201croot causes\u201d of immigration was progressing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House is struggling to define Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 \u201cborder czar\u201d role as the immigration crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border continues to worsen.President Joe Biden tapped Harris to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-828523","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\/828523","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=828523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828523\/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=828523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}