Jacquelyn Martin
A key element is to tackle the causes that led people to leave their home countries for the United States, Harris said on Friday in El Paso, Texas. These included violence, corruption and the lack of an economic perspective.
Therefore, before visiting the border region, she first visited Guatemala and Mexico, from where many migrants came. Harris had come under massive criticism from the Republicans in the past few weeks. Among other things, they denounced that she had not visited the border for a long time after President Joe Biden entrusted her with the issue in the spring.
The US government is under pressure because of the large number of migrants arriving on the southern border. Biden pursues a much more liberal migration policy than his Republican predecessor Donald Trump. The Republicans accuse Biden of causing a crisis on the border.
During her visit, Harris criticized Trump’s migration policy and measures at the border, pointing out, among other things, that in El Paso the separation of children of migrants from their parents had begun. The topic cannot be reduced to a political problem. “It’s about children. It’s about families. “