Mainstream media outlets are suddenly denying that President Joe Biden appointed Vice President Kamala Harris, who is the presumptive Democrat nominee, as the “border czar” in an apparent attempt to distance Harris from the administration’s illegal immigration struggles.
In 2021, Biden gave Harris the task of overseeing efforts “stemming the migration to our southern border” in the face of the growing illegal immigration crisis that has plagued the Biden administration. At the time, Biden described Harris as “the most qualified person to do it.”
Despite Biden’s past appointment of Harris overseeing illegal immigration efforts, multiple news outlets have claimed that Harris was never appointed as Biden’s “border czar.”
Axios announced that it had “updated and clarified” a three-year-old article that reported the president had appointed Harris as the “border czar” in 2021. The news outlet claimed that while former President Donald Trump and other Republicans have labeled Harris as the “border czar,” the vice president never held that title.
CNN host Dana Bash claimed that the vice president “was put in charge … of combatting the roots of immigration, she was not and is not the border czar.” Meanwhile, a Tuesday story from Time Magazine claimed that “Harris was never Biden’s border czar,” and that the vice president’s role was actually “to focus on examining and improving the underlying conditions” in the countries that large numbers of illegal immigrants come from.
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Another story, which was published this week by USA Today, argues that “Harris was never put in charge of the border or made ‘border czar.'” Like the Time Magazine story, USA Today emphasized that Harris was appointed to address the “root causes” of “migration in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.”
Despite mainstream media’s attempt to deny the vice president’s role in the illegal immigration crisis currently facing the United States, White House records show that Harris was appointed to lead efforts to reduce illegal immigration.
In March of 2021, Biden announced that Harris would be leading immigration efforts, saying, “I’ve asked her, the VP, today — because she’s the most qualified person to do it — to lead our efforts with Mexico and the Northern Triangle and the countries that help — are going to need help in stemming the movement of so many folks, stemming the migration to our southern border.”
According to the Washington Examiner, it is estimated that 10 million illegal immigrants have illegally entered the United States under the Biden and Harris administration.
