Vice President Kamala Harris, who has been delegated to resolve the migrant rise crisis, has no plans to visit the US-Mexico border – but Donald Trump may be heading there “soon,” said an aide to the former president. .
Harris was approached by President Biden to hold talks with Latin American countries about the crisis earlier this week and is now focusing on diplomatic efforts to push back the wave of Central American immigrants seeking refuge in the US.
“The vice president is not crossing the line,” spokeswoman Symone Sanders told reporters on Friday.
“You can expect her to speak to leaders from the region in the near future,” said Sanders.
Meanwhile, the former president is considering a visit to the overwhelmed border “soon,” as he sees a comeback on the public scene – but first wants to give Biden the space to “fail on his own,” Trump assistant Jason Miller said of “The Michael. Berry Show ”Thursday.
“I think there’s a really fine line between speaking to someone about policy and then seemingly doing something that’s showboating or giving Joe Biden a chance to point and say, ‘Look, this isn’t serious, look at President Trump at making the border. a scene from here, “said Miller on the podcast.
“Not right away, but I could see a trip here sometime in the future. But it’s something President Trump is really concerned about, ”Miller said.
The White House is backing a plan to send $ 7 billion to Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras to help alleviate the poverty and violence causing refugees to flee the Northern Triangle countries en masse.
Last month alone, federal agents detained more than 100,000 people at the border, the highest number in two years. President Biden has warned migrants not to come, citing COVID-19 restrictions.
Many have ignored the message, hoping for a better chance of gaining asylum under the new administration, after Biden reversed Trump’s “Stay in Mexico” policy and halted construction of a border wall.
However, unaccompanied minors are not being rejected, with nearly 12,000 children currently under the custody of the Department of Health and Human Services, according to a report.
President Biden is also in no hurry to move south; he said earlier this week that he plans to “one day” look at the situation in person.
While Washington dignitaries keep their distance from the border, The Post has closely documented the circumstances in a series of reports of migrants’ poignant journey, which told stories of being held for ransom by unscrupulous smugglers in Texas depots.
With AP wires