Is immigration a concern for Kamala?
Harris’s term as vice president has been sabotaged by Biden’s early decision to give her the responsibility of handling the root causes of migration to the US in Latin America.
This made her the key symbol for one of the administration’s most significant political vulnerabilities: the wave of migrants at the US-Mexico border. Harris struggled through early media interviews on the subject.
She came under widespread criticism, including from party members, for not visiting the border until several months after taking office. Nevertheless, the blame has shifted in recent months.
Kamala supported the bipartisan border security deal torpedoed by Trump, who was unwilling to give the White House a political win in an election year.
The bill would have allotted tens of billions of dollars for the hiring of more border security agents and asylum officers and closed the US-Mexico border if the number of crossings hit a seven-day average of 5,000, or 8,500 in a day.
