Deputy to “fix” the rising migrant crisis, Vice President Kamala Harris has no plans to visit the U.S.-Mexico border, but Donald Trump could go there “soon,” according to an aide to the former president.
Harris was approved by President Biden to lead talks with Latin American countries on the crisis earlier this week and is now focusing on diplomatic efforts to reduce the wave of Central American immigrants seeking refuge in the U.S.
“The vice president doesn’t make the border,” spokeswoman Symone Sanders said Friday.
“You can expect to speak with leaders in the region in the near future,” Sanders said.
Meanwhile, the former president is planning to “soon” visit the overflowing border as he watches his return to the public stage, but first wants to give Biden room to “fail on his own,” Trump aide Jason Miller told ” The Michael Berry Show ”Thursday.
“I think there’s a very fine line between calling someone to do politics and then showing up to do something that flaunts or giving Joe Biden a chance to point out and say,‘ Look, this isn’t serious, look at the President Trump borders a scene outside of this, “Miller said in the podcast.
“And not immediately, but I was able to see a journey into the future here. But it’s something that really worries President Trump, ”Miller said.
The White House supports a plan to send $ 7 billion to Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras to help alleviate the poverty and violence facing refugees fleeing the massive Triangle countries.
Federal agents captured more than 100,000 people at the border last month alone, the highest number in two years. President Biden has warned migrants not to come, citing COVID-19 restrictions.
Many have ignored the message, hoping to have a better chance of receiving asylum under the new administration, after Biden reversed Trump’s “Stay in Mexico” policy and stopped building a border wall.
However, unaccompanied minors are not being removed, as there are about 12,000 children in the custody of the Department of Health and Human Services, according to a report.
President Biden is also in no hurry to head south; he said earlier this week that he plans to get to know the situation up close “at some point”.
As Washington dignitaries move away from the border, The Post has closely documented conditions in a series of reports on the rampant migrant journey, which told stories of being detained to rescue clandestine homes in Texas by unscrupulous smugglers.
With AP cables