WASHINGTON — President Biden has asked Vice President Kamala Harris to lead the administration’s efforts to handle the increase in migrants on the United States’ southern border, putting her in charge of a politically sensitive and complex challenge as her first specific portfolio.
“This new surge we are dealing with now started in the past administration, but it is our responsibility,” Biden told reporters during a White House meeting with Harris, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra. Continue reading “Vice President Kamala Harris will lead response to migrant issue as numbers rise at border”