VP Harris tours the El Paso Border Patrol Station in Texas on Friday. Latest: 📷 Patrick Fallon / AFP
Friday as part of her role addressing the root causes of migration after weeks of pressure from her political opponents about going there in person.
Harris toured a U.S. Customs and Border Protection processing facility, where she met with nonprofit organizations and legal service providers as well as young girls from Central America. She also visited the El Paso del Norte Port of Entry, one of the country’s busiest pedestrian border crossings.Vice President Kamala Harris tours the El Paso Border Patrol Station, on June 25, 2021 in El Paso, Texas.
In a call with reporters ahead of the trip, Symone Sanders, Harris' chief spokesperson, said that the visit was"really about building on the work that she has been doing. This is not happening in a vacuum and it is not just to go and see."in March that he was tasking Harris with leading diplomatic efforts to address the root causes of migration from Central America amid a rising number of people — many of them unaccompanied children — arriving at the U.S.
"This administration does not take their cues from Republican criticism, nor from the former president of the United States of America," Sanders said.
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