Biden admin's mother on Kamala Harris' latest successes as 'border czar' as illegal immigration rises

• The White House has not shared an update on Vice President Kamala Harris' efforts to address the “root causes of migration” while illegal immigration continues at record levels.
• The Border Patrol reported the highest level of illegal immigration on record with more than 2.2 million illegal crossings at the southern border in fiscal year 2022, according to the Congressional Research Service.
• “There are no metrics that show that the root causes have been addressed or anything that indicates that illegal irregular migration has slowed down,” said Chris Clem, former chief patrol officer of the Yuma Sector in Arizona. at the Daily Caller News Foundation.

The Biden administration has for months failed to share Vice President Kamala Harris' accomplishments on her work to address the border crisis as illegal immigration continues to rise.

The White House assigned Harris with addressing the “root causes of migration from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras” in March 2021, leading Republicans to label her “tsar of the border.” The last time Harris did a event The topic was on Feb. 6, when he touted his work on migration after the White House raised $3.2 billion in investments to create economic opportunities for Central Americans and provided an additional $956 million from private sector entities .

“There are no metrics to show that the root causes have been addressed or anything to indicate that illegal irregular migration has slowed down,” former Yuma Sector Chief Patrol Agent Chris Clem told the the Daily Caller News Foundation.

The Border Patrol reported the highest level of illegal immigration on record with more than 2.2 million illegal crossings at the southern border in fiscal year 2022. seconds to the Congressional Research Service. illegal migrant meetings also exceeded 2 million in fiscal year 2023.

Harris he said migrants do not “come” to the US while they are visiting Guatemala in June 2021. Migrants who spoke with DCNF on the Guatemala-Honduras border in October 2022 said they did not believe the US government was doing enough to address the economic and security issues that were driving them to leave their countries of origin.

“It didn't resonate with the migrant population because they keep coming,” Clem, who retired in December 2022, told the DCNF.

The White House announced in February 2021 that his strategy to solve the migration problem would include addressing issues in Central America related to corruption, the economy, human rights and crime.

“Ever since taking office, President Joe Biden laid out our administration's vision to reform our immigration system by creating a path to citizenship for the nearly 11 million undocumented immigrants in our country, modernizing our immigration process and effectively managing our border,” Harris said. in a statement in July 2021 after visitor the southern border the previous month.

“Soon after, the president asked me to lead our nation's efforts to address the root causes of this migration. That's because migration across our border is also a symptom of much larger problems in the region.” it continued.

The White House said in April 2022 update in the Harris mission that had leveraged $1.2 billion in private sector commitments to create new jobs in Central America.

The Border Patrol has recorded record months of illegal crossings on the southern border, including September when there were more than 218,000 migrant encounters, October when there were more than 188,000 and August , when there were 181,000, according to US Customs and Border Protection. Protection (CBP) data.

“I don't think there's been anything successful in terms of stemming the flow of migrants and helping border security since this administration took over,” Clem said.

The DCNF asked the White House, the State Department, and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for updates on Harris' accomplishments in addressing core migration issues, but received no response.

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