The two are trying to distance themselves from administration's handling of U.S.-Mexico border crisis, particularly the treatment of Haitian migrants.
and accept responsibility for one of the ugliest images of his presidency — desperate Haitian migrants getting wrangled by Border Patrol agents on horseback.
Biden and Harris are attempting a difficult political feat: criticizing the actions of their own administration. The problem for Biden and Harris is that the methods used by the Border Patrol agents, though potentially improper, stem at least in part from the administration’s decisions to pursue a policy of deterrence, according to immigration experts and advocates.
“The mess at the border is just the latest layer of a multilayered cake,” said William Galston, a Brookings Institution scholar who was a domestic policy advisor to President Clinton. “The problem is that when you are president, not only do you get credit for things that you are not responsible for, you also get blame for things you are not wholly responsible for. Joe Biden is experiencing the downside.
Biden’s pledge to reverse Trump’s signature set of immigration practices brought elements of all of those themes to bear. It was a critique of Trump, both in policy and competence, and it was intended as a sign to the world that America would regain its place as a beacon to other nations. “What a pathetic statement by the President of the United States regarding our mounted Border Patrol agents trying to control lawlessness at our border,” tweeted Sen. Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina Republican. “When President Biden says that Border Patrol agents will pay for doing their job, it is an affront to all those in uniform at the border and is the ultimate blame-shifting.”
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