U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris attends an infrastructure event addressing high speed internet in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building’s South Court Auditorium at the White House in Washington, June 3, 2021.
Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters
Vice President Kamala Harris plans to visit the United States’ southern border with Mexico on Friday, nearly three months after President Joe Biden put her in charge of curbing the flow of migrant arrivals.
Republicans have hammered Harris and Biden for refusing to visit the border in person during the first months of their administration amid a rise in migrants arriving there.
Harris is expected to go to El Paso, Texas, a source familiar with her plans told NBC News on Wednesday.
Harris, as her part of her diplomatic mission to address the root causes of the increase in migration, traveled to Mexico and Guatemala earlier this month to meet with leaders there.
Her trip to El Paso will come less than a week before former President Donald Trump, who is teasing another run for the White House in 2024, is scheduled to visit the southern border. Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott plans to accompany him.
Politico first reported the news of Harris’ border visit.
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