U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris has broken her silence on 53 Texas migrant deaths
Kamala Harris hit out at Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s response to the news that at least 53 migrants had died after being left in an abandoned semitruck in San Antonio, Texas.
“How the governor of that state responded really highlights part of the problem because his response when there are 50 dead bodies in his state is to go straight to politics,” Harris said in an interview with NPR.
“Instead of dealing with the realities of the issue.”
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Officials are investigating what appears to be one of the deadliest human smuggling cases in modern U.S. history.
Republicans are blaming the horrific incident on the Biden administration’s immigration policies.
“These deaths are on Biden,” Abbott tweeted on Monday night. “They are a result of his deadly open border policies. They show the deadly consequences of his refusal to enforce the law.”
President Joe Biden hit back at the governor and accused him of “political grandstanding”.
Harris argued the administration is taking “seriously” the issue of human smuggling.
“There have been over 2,000 arrests just in the last three months. I think there are at least eight indictments that have happened,” she said.
“We need to deal with that, right, in terms of the consequences of criminal behavior that results in death.”
“We also need to take seriously the fact that we have a broken immigration system that was decimated by the last administration,” she continued.
“And we’ve been trying, and we are on the path doing it, to fix that broken system.”
Harris was deemed the “border czar” by Biden upon entering office.
Veronica Dudo is the U.S. Correspondent for Ticker News covering America’s biggest headlines. As an Emmy® Award nominated global journalist, Veronica has traveled across the country and around the world reporting on historical events that connect all citizens. Lauded as an award-winning international journalist, Veronica has executed stellar news coverage for NBC News, CBS News, The Hill, ME-TV Network and AOL. Her stories have highlighted a plethora of topics ranging from breaking news and politics to economic affairs across the USA, European Union, and Asia; cultural affairs; globalization; governance; education; and sustainability.
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