Hoho harris, in chg of border, still no trip to border OR news conf for 58 days
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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/kamala-harris-no-press-conference-border-crisisKamala Harris has gone 58 days without a news conference since being tapped for border crisis role
The vice president's travels to non-border areas were the focus of a bill introduced in Congress on Thursday by Republican lawmaker
By Dom Calicchio | Fox News
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The Biden-Harris administration continued receiving criticism Thursday over its U.S.-Mexico border policies regarding the migrant crisis.
Thursday was the 58th day that Vice President Kamala Harris – manager of the administration’s response to the crisis – has neither traveled to the border region nor held a news conference regarding her border-related duties, which she took on in late March.
Harris has visited other places during that time, however, and her travels were the focus of a bill introduced in Congress by U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson, an Iowa Republican.
Hinson’s "See the Crisis Act" calls for an end to federal funding for the vice president’s travels until after she has visited the border region and submitted a report to Congress.
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"We have an absolute crisis at the border, and Vice President Harris was appointed to lead the administration’s efforts on the border crisis, but it's been 56 days, and in that time she hasn't been to the border once," Hinson told Fox News earlier in the week. "She hasn't held a news conference on the administration’s efforts for a plan, and I think it's time she does that."
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The vice president has repeatedly claimed she’s focusing on the "root causes" of migration in the Northern Triangle countries of Central America, and plans to travel to Mexico and Guatemala in June as she continues that work. Up until now, Harris has held phone conversations and online meetings with Latin American officials – but has not visited border communities in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona or her home state of California.
Separately, the Biden administration announced Thursday that it will no longer use two immigration detention facilities, in Massachusetts and Georgia, because of allegations of misconduct and abuse at the facilities.
Both sites were being run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
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"We will not tolerate the mistreatment of individuals in civil immigration detention or substandard conditions of detention," Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in a memo to acting ICE Director Tae Johnson.
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In a Twitter message late Thursday, House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy of California suggested that a broader strategy might be underway by the Biden-Harris administration.
"First they open the border," McCarthy wrote, retweeting a news story about the planned ICE closures. "Now, Democrats are abolishing ICE, step by step."
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
