Psaki says Harris' border visit is to places where Trump-era policies were 'so problematic'
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White House press secretary Jen Psaki said that Vice President Kamala Harris had chosen to visit El Paso in the southern border region because it was the place where Trump-era immigration policies were “so problematic.”
"It is here in El Paso that the previous administration's child separation policy was unveiled. And so we've seen the disastrous effects of that right here in this region," the vice president said in her own briefing after her visit. "It is here in El Paso that the return to Mexico policy from the previous administration was implemented. We have seen the disaster that resulted from that here in El Paso." But most illegal border crossers caught in El Paso are from Mexico, not Central America. The Rio Grande Valley, which is much closer to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, is typically where migrants from those regions arrive. Critics said that is where Harris should have visited to understand the crisis. "The border is not all the same. El Paso has definitely been negatively effected by the Biden-Harris open border policies," Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, wrote on Twitter. "But why would she deliberately avoid that part of the border where she would be likely to learn the most about the consequences of Biden-Harris immigration policy failures and how to correct them?"More Related News