When in 2021 President Biden appointed Kamala Harris his "point person" on immigration issues at the southern border, he said, “I can think of nobody who is better qualified to do this.”
Thinking has never been Biden's strong suit, but even so, assuming he meant what he said, then surely Harris would be heading the US delegation to Mexico today to discuss the immigration crisis.
Here's how CNN This Morning reported it today:
"A big focus on the southern border today. Top Biden officials are headed to Mexico to confront the crisis at the border, but more migrants are headed north. New this morning, the message the White House will deliver
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"We begin this morning with the crisis at the southern border, where President Biden is sending some of his highest-ranking officials, as the largest migrant caravan since June of 2022 leaves southern Mexico, hoping to reach the United States. That caravan includes 6,000 migrants, and its leaders carrying a banner reading Exodus From Poverty.
"Today Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, and White House security advisor Liz Sherwood-Randall will all meet with their Mexican counterparts in Mexico City to try to reach an agreement to try to stem the tide of migrants into the United States.
"The urgency of the moment is clear by who is heading down to Mexico today. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, and Homeland security advisor Liz Sherwood-Randall."
So, given that there is a "crisis," that the meeting is considered critical given "the urgency of the moment," and that Biden is sending "top Biden officials, some of his highest-ranking officials," surely that delegation would include, and indeed be headed by, the seniormost official after Biden himself, and Biden's hand-picked person on the issue: Kamala Harris!
Except . . . nary a word was breathed about the exclusion of Kamala. She is obviously not going to be heading down Mexico way to meet with top Mexican officials.
You'd think that CNN would see her exclusion as very newsworthy, raise questions about it, contact the White House for an explanation, etc.
But not a word in the segment about the absence of the Veep, or as we might call her, "La Desaparecida."
The last time we saw Harris in any kind of action was when she issued her Christmas message—which managed to exclude any mention of Jesus. Then again, she did let us know that she and Second Gentleman Doug were cooking Beef Wellington.
CNN's failure to note Harris's exclusion from the delegation constituted journalistic malpractice, and an obvious attempt by the liberal network to cover for Kamala's failed tenure as Biden "point person" on the southern border.
Note: The segment included a clip of Rolando Salinas, the Mayor of Eagle Pass, Texas, blasting the Biden administration for ignoring the crisis that the border town is facing. But CNN failed to mention that Salinas is a Democrat -- don't want to send the message that there is dissension in Democrat ranks over Biden's mishandling of immigration!
Here's the transcript.
CNN This Morning
12/27/23
6:00 am ETPOPPY HARLOW: A big focus on the southern border today. Top Biden officials are headed to Mexico to confront the crisis at the border, but more migrants are headed north. New this morning, the message the White House will deliver.
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We begin this morning with the crisis at the southern border, where President Biden is sending some of his highest-ranking officials, as the largest migrant caravan since June of 2022 leaves southern Mexico, hoping to reach the United States. That caravan includes 6,000 migrants, and its leaders carrying a banner reading Exodus From Poverty.
Today, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, and White House homeland security advisor Liz Sherwood-Randall will all meet with their Mexican counterparts in Mexico City to try to reach an agreement to try to stem the tide of migrants into the United States.
PHIL MATTINGLY: And the critical meeting comes after President Biden's call with Mexico's president last week where they agreed more enforcement at the border is needed.
Meanwhile, there are more than 11,000 migrants still waiting in shelters and camps on the Mexican side of the border as US Border Patrol officials say that they are just overwhelmed by processing migrants.
The mayor of Eagle Pass, Texas, telling CNN last night that Biden's handling of the situation is, quote, unacceptable.
ROLANDA SALINAS: Our city here in Eagle Pass, we've been getting slammed with 2-to-3,000 people a day. And it's just an unfair, unethical, situation, what's going on here in Eagle Pass. We feel ignored by the federal government.
MATTINGLY: We begin this morning with CNN's Priscilla Alvarez, live for us at the White House. Priscilla, you have new reporting on what the administration is looking to ask for in these meetings. What are the expectations?
PRISCILLA ALVAREZ: Well, Phil and Poppy, President Biden is ending the year the way hes started it, working with his Mexican counterpart to try to manage the record migration in the Western Hemisphere. And the urgency of the moment is clear by who is heading down to Mexico today. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, and Homeland security advisor Liz Sherwood-Randall, all going down to meet with the Mexican president and members of his cabinet as thousands move north.
