While the Biden administration continues to deal with the growing “crisis” at the border many lawmakers, including Representative Chuck Fleischmann, are pushing for Vice President Kamala Harris to visit the U.S.-Mexico border as soon as possible.
Members of Congress claim President Biden ordered Harris to lead “efforts to stem migration across the U.S.-Mexico border.”
“There is no substitute for seeing overcrowded migrant facilities in person and speaking directly with our border agents and officers who are dealing with this crisis on the human level every day,” Fleischmann, ranking member on the House Appropriations Committee’s Homeland Security Subcommittee, wrote.
He added that lawmakers “are greatly concerned about the Biden administration’s ability or willingness to respond to this humanitarian crisis when neither the President nor the Vice President has gone to the Southwest border to assess this crisis for themselves.”
“We invite you to make the journey to the southern border and to work with Congress to find solutions to mitigate this humanitarian and national security crisis in order to protect our nation,” Fleischmann continued.
The Tennessee Republican, along with GOP Reps. John Katko of New York, Diana Harshbarger of Tennessee, Carlos Gimenez of Florida and Dan Bishop of North Carolina, as well as Mariannette Miller-Meeks and Ashley Hinson of Iowa, signed a Tuesday letter to the vice president.
Fleishmann took the time to visit the border last month to see for himself how bad the conditions were at the migrant facilities. Many other Republican leaders have also done the same. Republican members of the House and Senate are demanding answers regarding the poor conditions at the border.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki says there are no planned “trips to outline or preview” in regard to Harris’s plans to visit the border.
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