‘Look beyond the criticism’: Kamala Harris’ allies urge vice president to resist border fight

Sac Bee ^ | 6/22/21 | Francesca Chambers

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Vice President Kamala Harris’ immigration work has become the target of critics with a singular question: when will she visit the southern border?

The question has hounded the vice president, who on a trip to Mexico this month relented and said she would visit at some point while emphasizing that as a former California official she had been to the area.

Allies of the vice president say a border trip would not douse the criticism, which is mainly coming from Republicans, and that Harris should go on her own time frame.

Their advice to Harris is to ignore the naysayers and stay centered on the substance — addressing the factors that are causing Central American migrants to leave their home countries and travel to the U.S. border.

“She cannot be distracted by Republicans attacking her on this issue. They have made a decision that they’re going to attack her on this issue,” said the Immigration Hub executive director Sergio Gonzales, who was a senior policy adviser to Harris when she was a senator. “She is going to continue to, I think, focus on the policy work that she needs to do in order to be successful in driving progress in the region.”

Harris is under increasing pressure to visit the border, despite the White House repeatedly saying her role is to address the “root causes” of migration from Northern Triangle countries and lead the administration’s diplomatic and humanitarian efforts in the region.

“I think she should go to the border to get that off her back,” Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., told McClatchy. The senator, who has been at the forefront of bipartisan immigration reform efforts, said Harris should meet with Border Patrol agents and lawmakers who are pursuing a comprehensive overhaul.

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Once put in charge of the country, will she then leave? Please?

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This is so funny.

The tactic currently being used against Kamala is the same one the media uses against Republican. Pick a topic and then demand the person does something about it. Often it is a no win situation since what ever the person does, it will be wrong.

Kamala Harris spent four years bashing President Trump over his action on our Southern Border (even when she knew his policy was working).

Within days of taking office Biden’s administration reverse most of Trump’s policy and we are worse off then before.

The only thing that would work is to return to President Thump’s policies and for political reasons the Biden Administration can’t do that.

The worse the border gets the more votes Republicans will get in the mid-term election.

The southern border for Kamala is the Gordian Knot of politics. Happy to see it being used against a Democrat for a change.