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Why so quiet, Kamala?
Vice President Kamala Harris, the Biden administration’s migration czar, turned and walked away for a second straight day Friday when a reporter asked her about Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott busing 101 migrants to her official residence on Thursday.
“What’s your reaction to the buses that were arriving yesterday?” Harris was asked as she welcomed South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to Washington.
Harris did not respond or react to the inquiry as she entered the Naval Observatory, about 2 miles northwest of the White House.
Second gentleman Doug Emhoff had a more robust response earlier in the day.
“I do have a reaction. I think it was shameful. These are human beings. These are people,” the veep’s husband said at an event promoting updated COVID-19 booster shots.
“They needed to be treated with dignity and kindness and respect and they weren’t,” Emhoff added. “And we have so-called leaders in this country who, rather than focusing on what’s good for the public within their own states, they’re using people as pawns for a political stunt.”
The silence from Harris came days after she insisted in an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press” that “the border is secure” — a claim the White House backed up hours after the migrants arrived at her front door.
“We’re sending migrants to her backyard to call on the Biden Administration to do its job & secure the border,” Abbott tweeted in announcing the transport.
President Biden tapped Harris in March 2021 to be his point person on stemming a mounting border crisis by focusing on the “root causes” of migration, but monthly apprehension rates have continued to surge.
