Vice President Kamala Harris is more than three years into her role as the Biden administration’s “border czar,” but Republicans have not been impressed by her performance, instead accusing Harris of imposing immigration policies that caused the border crisis.
Harris touted on Monday a total of $5.2 billion in financial commitments to Mexico’s southern neighbors during her meeting in Washington with Guatemalan President Bernardo Arevalo Monday afternoon. The nongovernmental investments into El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras are part of a longer-term U.S. effort to boost the economy, provide jobs, and reason for citizens in the region not to feel they must migrate elsewhere.
But Republicans were flippant over the investments, with House Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green (R-TN) saying in a statement to the Washington Examiner that if Harris wants to get to the “root causes of
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