President Biden’s “border tsar” resigns amid the wave of migrants to the US-Mexico border that the White House refuses to recognize as a crisis.
Former US Ambassador to Mexico Roberta Jacobson will retire at the end of the month, with national security adviser Jake Sullivan saying on Friday that the move was “consistent with her commitment to serve in the first 100 days of government.”
President Biden’s “border tsar” resigns amid the wave of migrants to the US-Mexico border that the White House refuses to recognize as a crisis.
Former US Ambassador to Mexico Roberta Jacobson will retire at the end of the month, with national security adviser Jake Sullivan saying on Friday that the move was “consistent with her commitment to serve in the first 100 days of government.”
Sullivan said Vice President Kamala Harris will continue to monitor the crisis as a “whole governmental approach” – which seems to contradict the recent White House case that Harris is only addressing the “root causes” of migration.
Sullivan said: “President Biden has asked Vice President Kamala Harris to lead the government’s work in our efforts with Mexico and the Northern Triangle, a testament to the importance this government places in improving conditions in the region. The Vice President oversees an entire government approach, supported by outstanding officials in the various agencies, including Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas and Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra, who were tasked by the President with rebuilding us at the beginning of the government immigration system. “
Jacobson’s retirement was announced less than a month after she admitted that the White House was sending “mixed messages” to migrants from Latin America, saying “it is sometimes difficult to overcome both hope in the future and the danger that is now. to bring.”
Jacobson is leaving because the Biden administration is reportedly considering sending cash payments to Central Americans in an effort to keep them from making the trek north and since Harris, called on by Biden to face the crisis, is still the border or Central America. .
Meanwhile, migrant parents already in the United States say they are not regularly informed about the location or welfare of their children in federal custody. And it reportedly costs US taxpayers more than $ 60 million a week to care for 16,500 unaccompanied migrant teens and children, now in federally run shelters.
Customs and Border Protection announced this week that the number of encounters with illegal immigrants at the southern border has exploded – by more than 71 percent since February.
Robertson’s abrupt departure came as a surprise to many in Washington, and some Republicans wondered if she was leaving voluntarily.
Former US Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell, who was also acting intelligence director last year, tweeted, “Biden blames and fires a woman for his disastrous border policy.”
Harris’s office has revealed few details about her efforts.
While the White House has made it clear that Harris is addressing the “root causes” of the migrant crisis, her office has revealed few details about her efforts.
Last week, Harris spoke to the president of Guatemala, but she has not spoken to the leaders of El Salvador or Honduras – who along with Guatemala form the so-called “Northern Triangle” from which many migrants travel. Harris spoke with the president of Mexico on Wednesday.
Roberta Jacobson, who admitted that Biden’s immigration policy “may have pushed people to the border,” is now stepping down as a border-line. So who is in charge? tweeted Chad Gilmartin, a communications assistant for House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.).
“VP Harris is absent from the border, while CBP data contradicts WH claims the rise is seasonal.”
Earlier Friday, a California man whose brother was murdered by an illegal immigrant in 2018 condemned Biden’s immigration policy by saying, “We are definitely in a crisis.”
“When it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, it’s not a cow, it’s a duck,” said Jody Jones of Fox & Friends.
“So don’t sit there and tell me there is no crisis at the border, because there is.”
White House officials have repeatedly refused to call the situation a crisis, though press secretary Jen Psaki erred during a briefing last month, referring to the “crisis at the border” when discussing the shipment of COVID-19 vaccines to Mexico.
When a reporter noticed she was using the word, Psaki quickly corrected herself, saying, “Challenges at the border.”