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Kamala Harris ‘Has No Immediate Plans’ To Visit Border, Will Focus On ‘Diplomacy’ Amid Migrant Crisis

Emily Zanotti
Kamala Harris ‘Has No Immediate Plans’ To Visit Border, Will Focus On ‘Diplomacy’ Amid Migrant Crisis
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President Joe Biden assigned Vice President Kamala Harris the task of handling what has become a “child migrant crisis” on the United States-Mexico border, but Harris now says she has no plans to visit or tour overflowing detention facilities and will use “diplomacy” to handle the surge of unaccompanied minors.

The Biden administration noted last week that it was negotiating with Mexico in the hopes of securing that nation’s assistance in handling a surge of unaccompanied minor immigrants and families seeking asylum at the southern border, and Harris said late last week that she will pursue that “diplomacy” fully in the hopes of solving the crisis without making changes to immigration law.

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