Border Patrol Chief Jason Owens says Vice President Kamala Harris, whom Joe Biden put in charge of the U.S. border crisis in March 2021, has not spoken with him since he assumed office last July. Owens’s predecessor, Raul Ortiz, who retired in May 2023, revealed this March that he “never had one conversation with the President or Vice President” during two years in office.
Vice President Harris’s status as “Border Czar”—which her corporate media allies are now denying—is likely to hamstring her efforts to present her presidential candidacy as a clean break from that of Joe Biden, who endorsed her after abandoning the race on Sunday.
“When she speaks, she speaks for me. Doesn’t have to check with me. She knows what she’s doing,” Biden said when assigning her the role in 2021.
Illegal immigration has reached unprecedented heights under the Biden-Harris regime. It is projected that, by the end of its four years, it will have overseen an influx of illegal migrants on par with the number of legal migrants Ellis Island processed across 63 years.
Meanwhile, the year 2023 saw a flood of resignations from the Biden-Harris border team, including Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security John Tien, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) chief Chris Magnus, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) acting chief Tae Johnson. The slew of departures raises additional questions about Harris’s role in overseeing the U.S. border and her ability to manage federal offices effectively.
