Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to finally visit the U.S.-Mexican border today.
Her trip comes more than three months after President Joe Biden named her border “czar,” and a few days ahead of former President Donald Trump’s visit to the border with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.
But Florida’s Republican U.S. senators have trolled Harris for this maneuver.
In a tweet this week, Sen. Rick Scott wrote, “It’s about time that @VP does her job. It’s embarrassing how long she has avoided the crisis she and Biden created. Now, VP Harris needs to see the crisis she’s helped create firsthand.”
In a Senate floor speech, Scott added that he hopes Harris gets to see first-hand the situation the administration’s “failed policies” have created.
Scott went on to say he hoped Harris met with beleaguered Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agencies and county sheriffs to learn what those policies have wrought.
He added that he also hoped Harris would tour the gaps in the border wall, and note the surveillance equipment that doesn’t work. He said he further wished that she would meet with local officials and ranchers who are overwhelmed by illegal immigrants, and the families of crime victims affected by them.
“What’s happening at the border is a crisis,” said Scott. “There’s simply no other word for it.”
Meanwhile, Rubio argued that Harris, by visiting El Paso, is avoiding the hottest spots.
“I don’t know why they chose El Paso. It’s not the epicenter of the crisis,” he told Fox News on Wednesday.
Rubio said Harris instead should visit McAllen, Texas, where most illegal crossings occur, which is some 800 miles from El Paso.
“I will say that irrespective, I think what they’re going to see is what they created,” Rubio added.
“Migratory pressure has always been there, and I don’t care what anybody tells you, I don’t care what rhetoric you hear, I know people who have relatives in Central America, and the message they got in November of last year and in January when [President] Joe Biden was sworn in was, ‘There’s a new administration, they’re going to do everything on immigration the opposite of Trump.'”
“There will be no wall. Some of the first actions they took were on immigration in terms of deferring the deportation of people who may have been in jail, also, the new asylum processes, getting rid of ‘stay in Mexico’ policies,” Rubio continued. “All of this sends a message, and that is, ‘Things have changed, it’s going to be easier to get in,’ and the trafficking networks took advantage of it.”
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