In light of the criticism the Biden administration is receiving for its immigration policy, Vice President Kamala Harris focused on abortion rights on Friday when she visited Chicago.
Harris landed in Illinois a few days after Governor J.B. Pritzker declared a state of emergency due to a disaster in order to assist the hundreds of unauthorized immigrants that Texas Governor Greg Abbott had bused into the state.
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The Republican governor is continuing his campaign to oppose President Joe Biden's administration over its stance on immigration with his efforts to transfer migrants to Illinois. This week, Abbott dispatched illegal immigrants to Washington, DC, and dropped them off in front of Harris' house, Newsweek via MSN reported.
On Friday, Harris visited Chicago and took part in a roundtable discussion regarding reproductive rights and the effects of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling with other prominent Illinois Democratic politicians, including Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot.
Later in the day, Pritzker, who is up for reelection in November, and Harris were both supposed to show up at a rally. In order to "provide sufficient capacity to address the requirements of more than 500 asylum seekers who have already arrived, with more buses arriving virtually every day," according to Pritzker's office, the declaration was required.
As they prepared to transfer unauthorized immigrants from their jurisdictions this week, Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott drew vehement criticism from Democrats and plaudits from conservatives.
Harris, who was receiving South African President Cyril Ramaphosa for breakfast before he met with President Joe Biden at the White House, did not respond to a query Friday morning regarding migrants being dropped off in front of her Naval Observatory home in Washington, DC.
Per Daily Mail, Ramaphosa and Harris turned and entered the residence without answering any queries. Following her speech at the White House on Thursday, she declined to respond to a similar query regarding the migrants.
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Doug Emhoff, Harris' husband, paid a visit to Washington, DC, on Friday at a vaccination center. A reporter questioned him about his reaction to the migrants being dropped off in front of his Washington, DC, home.
He said, "I do have a reaction. I consider it to be shameful. These are actual people. They are individuals. They required respect and decency, yet neither were shown to them."
When asked if the administration had requested the Republican governors to stop during the White House briefing on Friday, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said she had no calls to read out but expressed rage that DeSantis and Abbott would pull off these political stunts.
Jean-Pierre made note of the fact that Boston jobs had been promised to the migrants who ended up on Martha's Vineyard. Border officers criticized Vice President Kamala Harris' claims that the border is "secure," telling Fox News Digital that the situation caused by the influx of illegal immigrants into the country is escalating daily.
Despite the tens of thousands of illegal immigrants who frequently enter the country each month, Kamala Harris stated twice in an interview on Sunday that the southern border of the US is "secure." President Biden assigned Harris to handle the border situation shortly after they took office in 2021. Harris was in the Lone Star State last week for a series of activities.
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