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Vice President Harris' team tries to distance her from fraught situation at the border
CNN ^ | 1 June 2021 | Priscilla Alvarez and Natasha Bertrand

Posted on 06/01/2021 5:51:58 AM PDT by Magnatron

In the weeks since the President asked her to take charge of immigration from Central America, Vice President Kamala Harris and her staff have sought to make one thing clear: She does not manage the southern border.

Two White House officials familiar with the dynamic said Harris and her aides have emphasized internally that they want to focus on conditions in Central America that push migrants to the US southern border, as President Joe Biden tasked her to do. A record number of unaccompanied children crossed into the US this spring, and the throngs of desperate minors present a heart-rending problem as well as a political one.

Biden announced Harris' new assignment on March 24 ahead of an immigration meeting in the White House State Dining Room, telling reporters that he had asked the vice president "because she's the most qualified person to do it, to lead our efforts with Mexico and the Northern Triangle, and the countries that can help, need help in stemming the movement of so many folks, stemming the migration to our southern border."

After the announcement, Harris' aides appeared to "panic," according to one of the officials, out of concern that her assignment was being mischaracterized and could be politically damaging if she were linked to the border, which at the time was facing a growing number of arrivals. But another White House official pushed back on the sentiment, saying the vice president's team wasn't panicked.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: immigration; kamalaharris
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Kamala and Biden have opposing thoughts on who’s in charge. CNN is concerned…
1 posted on 06/01/2021 5:51:58 AM PDT by Magnatron
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To: Magnatron

She’s nothing more than a figurehead.................


2 posted on 06/01/2021 5:55:01 AM PDT by Red Badger (Jesus said there is no marriage in Heaven. That's why they call it Heaven.....................)
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To: Magnatron

Its so bad that CNN is even acknowledging it? The crisis at the border is even worse than I thought.


3 posted on 06/01/2021 5:55:04 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: Magnatron

The media has her back. She’s a woman, and a woman of color at that. She’s a leftist.

Americans will tingle with excitement when they get their first woman of color as president.


4 posted on 06/01/2021 5:55:12 AM PDT by brownsfan (Term limits! Without term limits, we are doomed.)
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To: Magnatron

Really only two questions that matter now:

1) will Sleepy take a dirt nap before January 2023 when McCarthy becomes Speaker (3rd in Prez line of succession matters hugely when the US “leadership” is this dysfunctional)
2) how long between Kameltoe taking power until impeachment and removal or until January 2025 - because we can be certain that the moment she moves into the White Hut, China and Russia will make their moves and the homeland will be severely threatened


5 posted on 06/01/2021 5:57:09 AM PDT by No_Mas_Obama
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To: Red Badger
Or:

They are nothing more than a figureheads................

6 posted on 06/01/2021 5:59:32 AM PDT by Michael.SF. (Never do anything illegal, when you are doing something illegal.)
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To: Magnatron

Sniffer is trying to figure out, how to fire the Ho?


7 posted on 06/01/2021 6:00:12 AM PDT by depressed in 06
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Things are going exactly as planned, and Kamala is playing her position.

That is to say, she's the do-nothing b!tch who was put in charge of doing nothing. She'll get her payoff for it, sometime after January 20th, 2023, unless something happens to Joe before then.

8 posted on 06/01/2021 6:02:00 AM PDT by OKSooner ("The virus is not the reason for the vaccine. The vaccine is the reason for the virus." )
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To: KC_Conspirator

Harris will forever be remembered as the V.P. who did nothing about the Border crisis.


9 posted on 06/01/2021 6:02:32 AM PDT by FreedBird (T)
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To: Magnatron

It’s not immigration when they are flooding the border.


10 posted on 06/01/2021 6:07:57 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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What is the situation at the border fraught with, fraught is not typically a standalone word. Makes me wonder if English is the reporters first language.


11 posted on 06/01/2021 6:08:34 AM PDT by radmanptn
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Biden: Kamala, you are in charge of the border.
Harris: All right. I'll tell everyone I'm not in charge of the border.
Biden: No. You are in charge.
Harris: That's right. I'll tell everyone I'm fixing Central America. I do not manage the border.
Biden: But you do. I hear noises in the background. Is that your staff? It sounds like they're panicking.
Harris: They are not panicking.
Biden: OK. I'll tell everyone they're panicking.
12 posted on 06/01/2021 6:10:56 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("I see you did something -- why you so racist?")
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Distance a sitting VP from a crisis in the country? What next? Have her sit out the next inevitable war?

Idiocy.


13 posted on 06/01/2021 6:11:36 AM PDT by OpusatFR
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🐫-la: “What border? You mean the book store?” 😲


14 posted on 06/01/2021 6:12:19 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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Now, if there were a guy (who was really drunk and desperate) who could provide a solution if Harris put her open mouth between his legs, that would be right up her alley.

Alas, the solution demands a plan that includes a physical border wall and enforcing the laws, so I guess there will be no part played by her in this, so they have to find a way to make her something other than an incompetent Marxist prostitute, probably by saying it just isn’t her fault.


15 posted on 06/01/2021 6:13:58 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists are The Droplet of Sewage in a gallon of ultra-pure clean water.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Hahahaha great post!


16 posted on 06/01/2021 6:14:48 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists are The Droplet of Sewage in a gallon of ultra-pure clean water.)
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To: radmanptn

Imbibers? Maybe it’s fraught with imbibers. Yeah, that’s it. LOL! Journalists are not english majors, obviously. Or journalists for that matter.


17 posted on 06/01/2021 6:15:02 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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To: FreedBird

In my estimation, this bitch had one thing to do as was assigned by her boss and the a-hole refuses to do it! Hair sniffer pedo Joe is not off the hook and will never dare defy the Kamel Ho. The political whore has the ambition of that POS Clinton.


18 posted on 06/01/2021 6:21:05 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Magnatron

Yup,don’t go within 1,000 miles of the border (unless it’s for a fundraiser in Malibu) and blame it all on Trump.


19 posted on 06/01/2021 6:21:14 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Trump: "They're After You. I'm Just In The Way")
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She’s not VP. She’s a treasonous, pathetic criminal and whore.


20 posted on 06/01/2021 6:31:10 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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