Vice President Kamala Harris was appointed ‘Border Czar’ by Joe Biden 72 days ago but has still failed to hold a major news conference or press briefing on the subject as the immigration situation between the US and Mexico spirals out of control.
“Harris was tapped by Biden back in March to be his point person on the border crisis, a role political observers—even at the time—saw as fraught with challenges with little political upside. Harris is very likely to run for president at some point, and a failure at the border—her highest-profile assignment—could be catastrophic for her career,” writes Fox News.
Twenty Republican Governors dispatched a scathing letter to President Biden last month demanding he take further action to solve the border emergency.
“Allowing the federal government to place a potentially unlimited number of unaccompanied migrant children into our states’ facilities for an unspecified length of time with almost zero transparency is unacceptable and unsustainable,” they write. “We have neither the resources nor the obligation to solve the federal government’s problem and foot the bill for the consequences of this administration’s misguided actions.” read more