 And Vice President Kamala Harris has visited a border patrol facility near the US-Mexico border, aiming to counter claims from Republicans that she has been slow to visit the region, as part of her role addressing the root causes of immigration. The trip which she has fostered the border since becoming Vice President five months ago was announced on Wednesday and appeared to have been hastily put together days before a border visit by former President Donald Trump. A White House official said Harris' shadow was not dictated by what the Republican Trump does. This visit after the work that we did in Guatemala and Mexico, because as I've long said, I said back in March I was going to come to the border, so this is not a new plan. But the reality of it is that we have to deal with causes and we have to deal with the effects. So being in Guatemala, being in Mexico, it's talking with Mexico as a partner frankly on the issue, was about addressing the causes and then coming to the border at the advice and actually the invitation of the congresswoman is about looking at the effects of what we have seen.