Single sanitized visit a photo op
When Vice President Kamala Harris made her first and only trip to the US-Mexico border, federal agents on the front lines were instructed to completely sanitize the area to hide the true severity of the crisis from cameras, sources told The Post — even going so far as braiding the hair of unaccompanied minors.
Harris, whose first big job as the nation’s No. 2 executive was to control the flow of migrants across the southern border, went to the border near El Paso, Texas, on June 25, 2021, after pressure from Republicans over her handling of the crisis.
Border Patrol sources said agents on the ground were told to start moving migrants out of holding facilities to put on a “show” for Harris.
“They rented out a ton of hotels, and we spent hours moving out bodies. The kids that remained, we had to braid their hair,” one agent said, adding that they “made jokes about how the building was more secure than the whole border was.”
“She had zero interest in really seeing anything. It was rushed,” said a former official who was also present during the trip.
Harris, whom critics dubbed President Biden’s “border czar,” spent the day visiting a migrant processing center and a port of entry alongside Democratic members of Congress and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
While in the processing facility, Harris met some of the migrant children who remained and drew pictures for her.
But aside from that, things remained quiet, the sources said.
“We sanitized all the aliens out of there to make it look good,” a second agent said.