Kamala Harris says US-Mexico border situation is ‘tough’ but claims progress
by Trisha Garcia in El Paso and Sarah Betancourt from on (#5KH26)
- Harris: We inherited a tough situation'
- Vice-president tours migration sites in El Paso, Texas
Kamala Harris described the situation as tough" at the US-Mexico border where migrants are being held in detention and routinely expelled before their pleas for sanctuary can be heard, as on Friday she made her first visit there as vice-president.
In El Paso, west Texas, she met with five girls, aged between nine and 16, who had been held at a Customs and Border Protection processing center after crossing the border.
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