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Kamala Harris under pressure about US-Mexico border issue

Vice-President Kamala Harris has faced pressure to visit the US-Mexico border, as she tackled a record migration spike on her first official foreign trip. Ms Harris had a testy exchange with a news anchor who asked why she had not gone to the US' southern boundary.

Members of Ms Harris' own Democratic party meanwhile assailed her after she warned against illegal immigration.Some 178,000 undocumented migrants arrived at the border this April, the highest total in more than two decades.

The vice-president's staff initially said the border was part of Ms Harris' portfolio when US President Joe Biden assigned her in March to stem migration from Latin America. But aides have recently been seeking to distance her from the politically toxic crisis.

While recent public polling suggests a generally favourable view of the Biden administration's policies on the economy and pandemic, its handling of the immigration crisis has proven less popular.

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