VP Kamala Harris inactive on border crisis as migrant surge continues, title 42 end looms

Vice President Kamala Harris was tasked by President Biden with leading the administration’s efforts to combat “root causes” of the crisis at the southern border more than a year ago. But now, with massive numbers again amassing at the border, the matter is barely appearing on her schedule.

It proved a politically tricky assignment for Harris, who was quickly dubbed "the border czar" at a time when the border was undergoing a major crisis, with spiking migrant encounters that critics have blamed on the administration’s liberal immigration policies. The administration has instead said that a combination of "root causes" and the shutting of legal asylum pathways by the Trump administration is to blame.