One immigration group says the vice president has an opportunity to counter Republican attacks on border security.
Republicans were quick to call out what they saw as a lack of action on the U.S.-Mexico border by Vice President Kamala Harris, following her endorsement by President Biden to be the Democrat nominee, but at least one immigration group is confident she can take on the GOP’s top issue.
The Immigration Hub (TIH), a nonprofit immigrant advocacy group, told Newsweek that Harris‘ work as attorney general and then senator from California — in which her office tackled international criminal gangs while also making legal immigration pathways easier — meant she could counter Donald Trump’s policies.
The GOP has spent much of the Biden administration attacking Harris‘ record on migration, pushing the idea that she was the „Border Czar“ and arguing that she has not done enough to stop the flow of migrants arriving at the southwest border.
„I think I will need to triple the border wall, razor wire barriers and National Guard on the border“, Texas Governor Greg Abbott said in reaction to Biden’s endorsement of Harris on Sunday.
TIH said that Harris had been working to combat the root causes that are pushing people to the southwest border.
„You know, the numbers at the border are actually pretty low right now“, Kerri Talbott, the group’s executive director told Newsweek Monday.
„People are broadly supportive of these efforts to reunite people their families“, Talbott added, referencing Harris‘ support for DACA and other protections for migrants.
