Border Czar Kamala Harris Heads to the Border—To Push Green Energy

Collin AndersonJanuary 19, 2023

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Kamala Harris, border czar and a member of the southern border states will be visiting Thursday. However, don’t expect Harris to address the nation’s migrant crisis.

Because Harris’s first official Vice-Presidential Visit to Arizona is to speak on green energy. Not the record number of migrants that have flooded the southern border since Harris and President Joe Biden. Harris will arrive in Tonopah (Ariz.) on Thursday afternoon. It is located about 100 miles northeast from Yuma. Tonopah is a busy border city that issued an enabling order in December 2021. emergency proclamation Over the “unprecedented number of migrants entering the area.” But Harris—whom Biden tapped in 2021 to lead the White House’s migration efforts—won’t be addressing the issue. Instead, Harris is in Grand Canyon State to highlight a wind and solar energy project.

This isn’t the first time that the Biden administration has missed an occasion to confront the continuing chaos at the southern frontier during a visit down south. Biden on Jan. 9 met with Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, which came as escalating cartel violence swept the Latin American nation. Biden then released an additional statement. list of commitments He was able to secure the Mexico City meeting even though the list didn’t include the word “cartel.” However, it did include promises to advance “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” “promote racial justice,” “tackle the climate crisis,” “integrate a gender perspective” into natural disaster response efforts.

Nainoa Johsens, spokesperson for Republican National Committee, said Harris’s decision not to prioritize green energy over border security shows that the Biden administration “doesn’t care” About the migrant crisis.

“Failed border czar Kamala Harris is looking at power lines and solar panels while the southern border remains wide open and drugs and violent crime are pouring into Arizona,” Johsens said the Washington Free Beacon. “The Biden administration has completely abandoned our border communities.”

The White House did no respond to a request for comment.

Harris, 2022, oversaw a fiscal year record of 2.4 millions border encounters. However she refuses to accept responsibility for the crisis. Instead, she’s blamed Republicans For the government’s migrant woes in December, said that Congress Republicans had shown “an unwillingness to engage in any meaningful reform that could actually fix a lot of what we are witnessing.”