As Vice President Kamala Harris works to secure the Democratic presidential nomination next month, her role in immigration policy is in the spotlight. Harris announced a multimillion-dollar investment to create opportunities in Central America in March of this year.
Kamala Harris, Vice President of the United States
“We have established Centroamérica Adelante, an innovative public-private partnership that over the past three years has been made up of CEOs and philanthropists from around the world. I am pleased to announce that this partnership has generated more than $5.2 billion in private sector commitments.”
Despite this achievement, as soon as Biden announced his endorsement of Harris for the Democratic nomination, Republicans blamed her for what they call the worst border crisis in US history.
Jaime Florez, spokesman for the Republican Party
“We believe that the vice president shares responsibility with the president for all the failures that this administration has had, starting with her own personal failure. She was assigned the role of border czar and this has been the worst disaster of this administration.”
Analyst Manuel Retureta believes it is premature to judge Harris on the immigration issue, and attributes the criticism to the Republican Party’s strategy to capture the attention of undecided voters.
Manuel Retureta, lawyer and analyst
“They had two older people, now we only have one older person, we have a woman of color and Trump, who are we going to go with? Those people who have always said I don’t like both options, I wish it was someone else, well, now they have someone else.”
Since President Biden’s executive order restricting asylum at the border went into effect in June, crossings have decreased by 50%, according to the Department of Homeland Security. But this Sunday, more than a thousand migrants left southern Mexico in a new caravan seeking to reach the border with the United States. Paula Diaz, Voice of America, Arizona.
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