{"id":451706,"date":"2022-05-24T00:52:53","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T21:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/kamala-harris-increasingly-absent-from-immigration-debate-amid-title-42-drama\/"},"modified":"2022-05-24T00:52:53","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T21:52:53","slug":"kamala-harris-increasingly-absent-from-immigration-debate-amid-title-42-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/kamala-harris-increasingly-absent-from-immigration-debate-amid-title-42-drama\/","title":{"rendered":"#Kamala Harris increasingly absent from immigration debate amid Title 42 drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3c46465097c\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3c46465097c\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/kamala-harris-increasingly-absent-from-immigration-debate-amid-title-42-drama\/#%E2%80%9CKamala_Harris_increasingly_absent_from_immigration_debate_amid_Title_42_drama%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Kamala Harris increasingly absent from immigration debate amid Title 42 drama&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CKamala_Harris_increasingly_absent_from_immigration_debate_amid_Title_42_drama%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Kamala Harris increasingly absent from immigration debate amid Title 42 drama&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Amid record-setting numbers of attempted border crossings and courtroom drama over the fate of Title 42, critics say one voice has been consistently absent from the ongoing immigration\u00a0debate: the president\u2019s own migration\u00a0czar. <\/p>\n<p>Vice President Kamala Harris attempted to put her stamp on the issue last summer by visiting El Paso and warning migrants \u201cdo not come\u201d during a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a> to Guatemala. But in recent months, she\u2019s limited her discussion of the issue to one-on-one meetings and exchanged public declarations for paper statements.<\/p>\n<p>Harris <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ears to have hosted just one public event this year focused on migration \u2014 a Jan. 27 trip to Honduras to attend the inauguration of President Xiomara Castro. While there, Harris said her focus on the \u201croot causes\u201d of migration would not fix the US-Mexico border crisis \u201covernight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mark Morgan, who led the US Border Patrol in the final months of the Obama administration before leading US Customs and Border Protection between 2019 and 2021 during the Trump administration, accused Harris of not doing more.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/kamala-hospital-003.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Kamala Harris\" class=\"wp-image-22381212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/kamala-hospital-003.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/kamala-hospital-003.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/kamala-hospital-003.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Harris, joined by Surgeon <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">General<\/a> Vivek Murthy, pauses during a tour to speak to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> at Children\u2019s National Hospital.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP\/Carolyn Kaster<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Harris \u201cclearly has one goal in mind \u2014 become president of the United States. But instead of working for the very people who would eventually elect her, she has worked against them, ignoring her responsibilities as border czar,\u201d said Morgan, who is now a fellow at both the Federation for American Immigration Reform and Heritage Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA true border czar must be a leader who acknowledges that border security is national security, provides CBP with the resources they have been deprived of, takes action to protect American communities from lethal narcotics, and doesn\u2019t allow border security policy decisions to be guided by open borders activists,\u201d Morgan told The Post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite what her boss and LinkedIn profile may say, the VP of the United States isn\u2019t the lead on solving the border crisis \u2014 she doesn\u2019t even play one on TV,\u201d former Trump administration Department of Homeland Security official Ken Cuccinelli piled on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s clear that this White House is more concerned about globalist radicals than the lives being destroyed at the southern border,\u201d added Cuccinelli, the former Virginia attorney general who is now a senior fellow at the Center for Renewing America.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>\u201cTurns out it\u2019s easier to shoot films with child actors than it is to address real problems and put Americans first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A Biden White House official defended Harris, however, saying that she \u201ccontinues to lead implementation of the Root Causes Strategy and has been engaging with Cabinet and other Administration officials on this effort.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are long-term efforts, but under the Vice President\u2019s leadership, the Biden-Harris Administration is seeing significant progress on addressing Root Causes of Migration from Central America,\u201d the official said.<\/p>\n<p>Harris has had a handful of migration-focused events over the past six months, though most of them were closed to the public and focused on boosting private-sector investment in Central America to deter economic migration, rather than on restricting or stopping the flow of new arrivals across the US-Mexico frontier.<\/p>\n<p>On Dec. 13, Harris announced $1.2 billion in private-sector investments in Central America to reduce poverty that contributes to migration \u2014 enlisting Pepsi, Cargill, Mastercard and other major US corporations to help create jobs in the region.<\/p>\n<p>But since that public event, most of her engagements have been private. On Jan. 10, Harris called Guatemala\u2019s president, Alejandro Giammattei, and the official US readout mentioned discussion of\u00a0\u201cthe root causes of migration, trafficking, economic development, and anti-corruption.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On April 15, Harris met privately with Ray Chambers of the Partnership for Central America \u201cabout the ongoing work to address the root causes of migration from Central America,\u201d according to a White House release. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/kamala-011.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Kamala Harris\" class=\"wp-image-22381206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/kamala-011.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/kamala-011.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/kamala-011.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Harris arrives to speak at Children\u2019s National Hospital on May 23, 2022. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP\/Carolyn Kaster<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And on May 11, she met privately with business leaders about the $1.2 billion pledge and \u201chighlighted U.S. government efforts to support their investments in the region and address the drivers of migration, including by combatting corruption and improving governance and security,\u201d the White House said.<\/p>\n<p>But Harris made little mention of the efforts publicly as the looming repeal of the Title 42 COVID-19 threatened a tidal wave of migration that exceeds even last year\u2019s four-decade high in border busts.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, a judge paused the scheduled lifting of the policy, which allowed authorities to quickly expel most suspected illegal immigrants without first hearing their asylum claims. The administration previously allowed unaccompanied children and families to remain in the US as courts review their cases \u2014 but a a massive wave of single adults was expected to follow the policy\u2019s repeal, which was originally set for Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Biden in March 2021\u00a0appointed Harris\u00a0to address the \u201croot\u00a0causes\u201d of migration from Latin America, but monthly border apprehensions continued to surge.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Harris last year visited Guatemala and Mexico, but the June trip was overshadowed by her\u00a0difficulty answering reporter questions\u00a0about why she hadn\u2019t visited the US-Mexico border. Harris\u00a0visited\u00a0the\u00a0border shortly after that trip, but only after former President Donald Trump booked a visit to denounce his successors.<\/p>\n<p>In fiscal year 2021, which ended Sept. 30, there were <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/newsroom\/stats\/cbp-enforcement-statistics?language_content_entity=en\">nearly 1.7 million<\/a> US Border Patrol encounters\u00a0with suspected illegal border-crossers \u2014 the most since at least 1986. So far in fiscal 2022, there have been nearly <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/newsroom\/stats\/cbp-enforcement-statistics?language_content_entity=en\">1.3 million<\/a> encounters.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, when there was an earlier border crisis also linked to Central American migrants, there were fewer than 860,000 Border Patrol encounters.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans blame Biden\u2019s policies for incentivizing the rush. For example, they point to his calls for Congress to legalize most people currently living in the US illegally, his campaign-trail calls to welcome asylum seekers and his abandonment of hardline Trump-era border enforcement tactics. <\/p>\n<p>Harris, meanwhile, has taken heat from members of both parties. Rep. Henry Cuellar\u00a0(D-Texas)<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/12\/23\/us\/politics\/kamala-harris-biden-administration.html\">\u00a0told the New York Times<\/a>\u00a0in December that he had given up on trying to work with the veep.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI say this very respectfully to her: I moved on,\u201d Cuellar said. \u201cShe was tasked with that job, it doesn\u2019t look like she\u2019s very interested in this, so we are going to move on to other folks that work on this issue.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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