Since President Joe Biden withdrew from the presidential race and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to succeed him, Republican lawmakers have focused more on Harris’ record on the southern border.
“The fact is she has a long track record of opposing border security and immigration enforcement, whether as a senator, a presidential candidate, or as Joe Biden’s ‘border czar,’” Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, recently said on the House floor.
Although Biden didn’t give Harris the formal title of “border czar,” he tasked Harris in the third month of his presidency with “leading the administration’s diplomatic efforts to address the root causes of migration from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras,” according to a White House fact sheet.
Since March 2021, U.S. Customs and Border Protection says the…
