Kamala hasn't gone to the southern border yet — but migrant kids are still getting Veep's book

Laura Italiano
The New York Post
Fri, 23 Apr 2021 17:40 UTC

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Kamala Harris's children's book will be given to migrant children coming to Long Beach.

Vice President Kamala Harris hasn't been to the border to address a crisis she was tasked to help fix — but a children's book she wrote is waiting there for young migrants who are being welcomed into the country.

Unaccompanied migrant kids brought from the U.S.-Mexico border to a new shelter in Long Beach, Calif., will be given a copy of her 2019 children's book, Superheroes are Everywhere, in their welcome kits.

It's just the latest open-arms gesture by the Biden administration, whose mixed messaging regarding the border and immigration has been credited with the surge from Central America to the U.S.-Mexico border.

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Migrant children are getting copies of Kamala Harris’ book when crossing the border.

Border czar Roberta Jacobson last month conceded that the Biden administration's messaging to migrants has been inconsistent, contributing to the unprecedented surge.

"Whenever there's trouble, superheroes show up just in time," Harris tells kids in the book, shown sitting on a cot with more basic supplies at the Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center, newly-converted to deal with the spiraling illegal immigration influx.

In the 30 days since President Biden asked Harris to lead the US response to the record surge in migrants, she has yet to visit the border or hold a press conference on the matter.

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Young, unaccompanied migrants wait for their turn at the secondary processing station inside the Donna Department of Homeland Security holding facility.

The administration has emphasized that she is addressing only the "root causes" that lead people to flee Central America, not the surge itself.

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Kamala Harris has still not visited the United States’ southern border as Vice President.

On Friday Harris was in New Hampshire to promote her boss's $2 trillion infrastructure proposal — and was greeted by protesters who urged her to visit the U.S.-Mexico border instead.

Comment: Government funds paid for Kamala's "book," with no disclosure of who is profiting from the purchase. That has to be all kinds of illegal.

Fox News reports:

A White House official told Fox News Harris wasn't aware of the welcome packs, and that these kinds of efforts are usually organized by members of the community.

Health and Human Services could not be reached for comment on who is purchasing the books for the children.

More than 172,000 migrants were encountered by authorities in March alone. Among those were 18,890 unaccompanied children - a 100% increase from the already high numbers encountered in February, and the highest number recorded.

Smugglers have used groups of child migrants to divert Border Patrol so they can get adults through a different part of the border when officials are overwhelmed, while images of children being dumped at the border alone by smugglers have been released.