Jim Jordan Quips That Kamala Harris’ Visit to Mexico Today is ‘Probably the Closest She’s Ever Been to the Southern Border’

Vice President Kamala Harris met today with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador as part of her first trip abroad since taking office and being named the “border czar.”

Since her and President Joe Biden took office, there has been a border crisis that continues to grow and they are trying different solutions that don’t involve finishing the border wall that was partially erected by the Trump administration.

U.S. House Rep Jim Jordan (R-OH) took note of the meeting and quipped in a tweet, “Vice President Harris is in Mexico today. Probably the closest she’s ever been to the southern border. But she still won’t visit it.”

Vice President Harris is in Mexico today. Probably the closest she’s ever been to the southern border.

But she still won’t visit it.

— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) June 8, 2021

Harris insisted in a recent interview with NBC’s Lester Holt that she has visited the southern border, but wasn’t clear as to when that may have occurred.

According to a Reuters article, a Mexican government official speaking on the condition of anonymity said the timing of Harris’ visit was not ideal and the United States had pushed for the visit.

Midterm elections on Sunday eroded Lopez Obrador’s power base in Congress, and although his leftist National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) party held the lower house of Congress, the margin was weakened.

The party, however, dominated gubernatorial contests, winning as many as 11 out of the 15 offices at stake.

Harris believes that she can halt the illegal immigration stampede by lowering the “root causes,” which she claims to be “poverty” and said at the beginning of the meeting, “I strongly believe that we are embarking on a new era that makes clear the interdependence and interconnection between nations.”

A memorandum of understanding was signed about the work the two countries’ development agencies do in Central America.