OTHERS SAY: Vice president must address the border crisis now

Vice President Kamala Harris has a golden opportunity to demonstrate she is ready to govern from the middle by frankly addressing her role in the Biden administration's ineffective immigration policies. She should seize the moment before it slips away.

In the whirlwind week when she became the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Harris failed to significantly speak to border issues, let alone reveal what her policies might be and how they may be different from President Joe Biden's.

Her public comments have centered more generally on her base and on preserving abortion rights, an issue that has played well with Democrats and moderates amid conservative overreach throughout the country.

Because Harris didn't have to debate immigration concerns with any primary opponents, she hasn't been pressed to defend her record after Biden appointed her in 2021 to examine the root causes of the surge in migration from Central America.

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