After many weeks of being taunted for not visiting the U.S.-Mexico borders by Republicans, The White House announced that Vice President Harris was traveling to the city of El Paso in the State of Texas to the Paso del Norte Port of Entry. El Paso is one of many cities in the United States bordering with Mexico.
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As previously written, VP Harris was appointed by President Biden to head the talks on Immigration and the issues at the US-Mexico Borders. She arrived in El Paso and was welcomed and spoke with Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas (with whom she travelled from Washington, D.C), Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-Texas) on the tarmac at EPIA.
2) Then she addressed reporters on the tarmac saying, “We are here today to address and to talk about what has brought people to the U.S. border and again to continue to address the root causes which caused people to leave and often flee their home country,”
3) Then she departed through Hondo Pass for Northeast El Paso where she visited the Paso del Norte Port of Entry and toured the migrant processing facility. The Port of Entry is one of the country's busiest pedestrian border crossings.
During her visit, The vice president was briefed by Border Patrol agents and given a tour of the processing facility, where she met with five young girls from Central America.
4) Then she departed for Paso Del Norte Bridge, where she visited the section of the bridge where cars travel and are examined when crossing from Juarez, Mexico to the United States, as well as a secondary migrant processing center and the region of the bridge where asylum seekers are checked when arriving from Mexico to the United States.
5) From there she returned to the airport at where she met with advocates, non-profits, and those who offer shelter and legal assistance to migrants for a round table meeting where she discussed the ideas that the government is employing in its approach to immigration.
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