Vice President Kamala Harris will take the lead for the Biden administration on the surge of unaccompanied minors and other immigrants seeking asylum along the US-Mexico border, a senior White House official told Insider on Wednesday.
“Biden has said over and over again, ‘The person that I trust most, the person I turn to when there’s a hard issue is Kamala Harris,’ ” the official said.
Harris is going to take point on negotiations with Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, the official said.
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