Remember she had to beat Trump to the border

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/25/politics/harris-el-paso-border-visit/index.html

Remember she had to beat Trump to the border, after she was put in charge of stemming the migration to the southern border, so Joe Biden could shift the blame to Harris during his big press conference?

Why did NBC ask her about the border if she had nothing to do with the border? In 2021, while illegals crossed the border in record numbers, Harris claimed in five months “we’ve made progress.”

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The visit to El Paso came amid a smattering of criticism that's followed Harris since being tasked by President Joe Biden with leading diplomatic e orts in the Northern Triangle to address immigration.

Harris endured a rocky first foreign trip -- her two-day swing through Mexico and Guatemala -- with sources telling CNN at the time that the trip left some officials perplexed about her bumpy answers to questions about whether she will go to the border.

"At some point, you know, we are going to the border," Harris said in an interview with NBC News while on the Central America trip. "We've been to the border. So this whole, this whole, this whole thing about the border. We've been to the border. We've been to the border."

But when pressed on the fact that she still had not visited the border, Harris responded, "... and I haven't been to Europe. And I mean, I don't -- I don't understand the point that you're making," Harris said with a laugh, adding, "I'm not discounting the importance of the border."

"We have said over a number of different occasions ... that she would go to the border. She has been before, she would go again. She would go when it was appropriate, when it made sense. And this trip tomorrow, this timing, is what made sense for the vice president's schedule, but also, for our partners on the ground," Sanders added.

A record number of unaccompanied children crossed into the US this spring, further intensifying GOP criticism of the Biden administration's handling. CBP encountered more than 180,000 migrants at the southern border in May, putting the US on track to surpass the number of border crossings in fiscal year 2019.

She said the Biden administration "inherited a tough situation," but that in five months, "we've made progress."

Shaw Drake, a staff attorney and policy counsel for border and immigrants' rights with the ACLU of Texas, told CNN's Ed Lavandera that although the Biden White House has taken some very important steps to address immigration, "the administration, to this point, is not doing enough."

Asked about Harris' upcoming trip, Biden said on Thursday that Harris has "done a great job so far."

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