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Vice President Kamala D. Harris on June 8 said it's "shortsighted" to not focus on the root causes of migration from Central America to the U.S. (Video: The Washington Post)

Harris says she will visit the U.S.-Mexico border, calls GOP criticism ‘shortsighted’

Vice President Harris said Tuesday that she will visit the U.S.-Mexico border and rejected Republican criticism as “shortsighted” for failing to recognize the reason migrants are coming to the United States. Harris made the comments at a news conference after meeting with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in Mexico City as part of the second leg of her trip focused on addressing the root causes behind a surge in migration from Central America to the U.S. southern border.  
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