
NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images
Vice President Kamala Harris, whom President Joe Biden tasked with managing the border crisis, is finally going to help secure a national border.
Just not in the United States.
Harris jetted off to Germany on Thursday to meet with European leaders and help bolster border security in Ukraine. While attending the Munich Security Conference, Harris will meet about one dozen heads of state, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, and leaders of the Baltic states, the Associated Press reported.
With an estimated 150,000 troops along Ukraine's border, Biden said this week that he expects Russia to invade Ukraine within several days.
"I’m in Munich, Germany to lead the U.S. delegation at the Munich Security Conference. Tomorrow I will join other world leaders to underscore our commitments to our allies and partners, and demonstrate our unity in the face of Russian aggression on Ukraine’s borders," Harris explained on Twitter.
I\u2019m in Munich, Germany to lead the U.S. delegation at the Munich Security Conference. Tomorrow I will join other world leaders to underscore our commitments to our allies and partners, and demonstrate our unity in the face of Russian aggression on Ukraine\u2019s borders.— Vice President Kamala Harris (@Vice President Kamala Harris) 1645140900
Harris was brutally mocked over the purpose of her trip — to help bolster security along Ukraine's borders by diplomatically easing tensions and decreasing the likelihood of war in eastern Europe — given that Harris abdicated her responsibility to secure America's southern border.
Last March, Biden appointed Harris to lead the Biden administration's response to the border crisis, which resulted in nearly 2 million migrant arrests in 2021. Unfortunately, it took nearly 100 days after Biden's appointment for Harris to visit the southern border; that visit was to El Paso, a Texas city hundreds of miles away from the epicenter of the border crisis.
While Harris looks abroad to bolster her border-securing résumé, the Department of Homeland Security reported nearly 154,000 migrant encounters at the southern U.S. border last month, meaning the border crisis in American remains alive and well.