Hey Kamala, its the other border.
Vice President Kamala Harris announced Wednesday that she’s traveling north to New Hampshire to promote infrastructure legislation — despite not yet booking travel for her work as President Biden’s migration czar to handle the southern border crisis.
Harris “will travel to Plymouth and Concord, NH this Friday to highlight how the American Jobs Plan will expand broadband coverage and workforce development,” tweeted her spokeswoman Sabrina Singh.
The trip was first reported by the New Hampshire Union Leader.
Harris also visited North Carolina on Monday to promote the more than $2 trillion infrastructure proposal and seemingly reduced her migration role to “bringing together” cabinet secretaries.
Harris’ precise role in addressing the crisis has been subject to confusion as large numbers of unaccompanied minors are housed in cramped, jail-like facilities.
Biden on March 24 asked Harris to lead the administration’s response to a surge of migrants at the border, including families and unaccompanied minors from the three-country “Northern Triangle” in Central America.
But the White House later emphasized she would address only the “root causes” of migration and not border enforcement.
She has yet to hold a press conference or pay a visit to the border in the ensuing 28 days.
Harris said last week she intends to travel to Latin America, including to Guatemala and Mexico, but a date has not been announced.
Harris has spoken by phone with the leaders of Guatemala and Mexico, but she has not spoken with the leaders of El Salvador and Honduras.
In a biting letter Monday, the top Republicans on three House committees asked Harris for a meeting to discuss migration, writing, “it is unclear what, if any actions you have directed or plan to initiate to respond to the crisis that continues to worsen each day.”
Republicans attribute the migrant surge to Biden border policy changes and say Biden-backed legislation that would allow citizenship for most illegal immigrants creates new “pull” factors. In February, Biden terminated former President Donald Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy that required Central American asylum seekers to stay in Mexico while US courts reviewed their claims.