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Harris Heads to Southern Border as Critics Slam Biden Migration Policies
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1:37Now PlayingVice President Kamala Harris on Friday will tour a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility in Texas and meet with immigrant-rights advocates on a fraught trip to the southern border, where record numbers of migrants from Central America have presented the Biden administration with a humanitarian and a political dilemma.
Harris will receive a briefing and speak with migrants at El Paso’s Central Processing Center, her spokeswoman Symone Sanders said Thursday night.
The vice president’s visit comes after months of denunciations from former President Donald Trump and other Republicans -- as well as frustration from some Democrats -- for not having gone to the border after President Joe Biden picked her to address the root causes of migration from Central America to the U.S. So far, she has focused on diplomacy to improve conditions in the region, traveling to Guatemala and Mexico earlier this month.
“This administration does not take their cues from Republican criticism nor from the former president of the United States of America,” Sanders said during a briefing with reporters, adding that the timing of the trip “made sense” for Harris and those she will meet there.
Yet Harris’s planned trip to El Paso has done little to quell her critics, who say she is avoiding other border areas such as the lower Rio Grande Valley, which in the last fiscal year has seen the biggest spike in migration by single adults, families and children and teenagers traveling alone, according to CBP data.
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