Vice President Kamala Harris, who was put in charge of solving the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border a few months after she and President Joe Biden took office—leading her to be dubbed “border czar”—is about to get put on the spot over her epic failure.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) announced plans to visit the southwestern border in the vice president’s home state of California to promote his party’s election integrity legislation and speak about the failed border policies of the Biden-Harris administration, the Washington Examiner reported.
“Johnson will speak at a press conference at 8:15 p.m. EDT with Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) at the ‘Whiskey 8’ border fence in San Ysidro, California. He will also tour the U.S. Customs and Border Protection facilities at the San Ysidro Port of Entry and Imperial Beach locations,” the report said.
“California has been a hot spot for border crossings, particularly in San Diego, which is south of San Ysidro,” it said.
Republicans and Democrats are engaged in a battle over the term “border czar” as it applies to Harris as Democrats have correctly stated that she was never officially given that title, though her duties did include work on root causes of the migration crisis.
“She was never assigned the position of ‘border czar,’” House Minority Leader and New York Democrat Rep. Hakeem Jeffries said Thursday during his weekly press conference. “They are making that up because extreme MAGA Republicans are in full meltdown. They don’t really know what to do, and they lack an affirmative agenda.”
Democratic Caucus Chairman and California Rep. Pete Aguilar said the resolution was an example of Republicans “playing politics.”
“It’s not surprising to anybody what they’re doing. It’s almost laughable,” he said to the Washington Examiner. “But there was no ‘border czar’ position … this is Republicans carrying water for Donald Trump.”
“If they can’t pass appropriations bills, and they’re going to try to distract, divert and play some politics, and that should be expected,” he said.
But Speaker Johnson said on Tuesday that Harris is the “co-owner, co-author, and co-conspirator in all the policies that got us into the mess.”
After the president gave the vice president the responsibility of addressing the crisis’s root causes, Republicans and several media outlets dubbed her the “border czar.”
“There’s about five other major things she’s handling, but I’ve asked her, the VP, today — because she’s the most qualified person to do it — to lead our efforts with Mexico and the Northern Triangle and the countries that help — are going to need help in stemming the movement of so many folks, stemming the migration to our southern border,” the president said.