Vice President Kamala Harris defended her decision not to travel to the southern border while she was in Arizona on Thursday to attend a groundbreaking ceremony for an energy development project, Fox News informed.
Nearly 100 miles from the Mexican border, in Tonopah, Arizona, the vice president was. She attended the groundbreaking ceremony for a 125-mile transmission line that would transport wind and solar energy to local residences and commercial buildings.
When questioned about skipping the border, Harris informed the local TV station KPHO that she was there to discuss efforts being made to lower costs for American families and create jobs.
One of their top responsibilities, according to her, is to keep working to ensure that the border is safe and that they take the required steps to establish a just and humane system.
Harris added that Congress needs to take action and that they have increased the number of agents at the border to a historic level and are modernizing their technology.
Harris has only made one trip to the southern border since taking office, in 2021, despite being given the job by President Biden to look into the roots of the migrant crisis that is overwhelming border states.
When asked when Harris will visit the border again, the vice president’s office did not comment right away.
In her current position, Harris has traveled to Latin America twice for a total of three days. The Los Angeles Times’ tracker of Harris’ scheduled meetings and events indicates that the last time Harris spoke in public about immigration was on June 15. As vice president, Harris organized 20 immigration-related events, 19 of which took place in 2021.
Since June, there have been over 200,000 interactions at the southern border per month, according to Customs and Border Protection.
After the upcoming expiration of the Title 42 policy, which permits agents to turn away migrants in order to curb the spread of COVID, these numbers are predicted to rise.
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