Biden Gives Harris Her First Major Task: Solving Border Crisis
- HHS and Homeland Security secretaries meet with Biden
- Influx of migrant children has overwhelmed shelters at border
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President Joe Biden put Kamala Harris in charge of resolving a surge in migration on the U.S. southern border that’s overwhelming federal immigration authorities, handing the vice president the first major assignment of her tenure.
Biden announced Harris’s assignment on Wednesday, with both Democrats and Republicans in Congress warning of a burgeoning humanitarian crisis as growing numbers of migrant children try to enter the U.S.