Trump, Republicans attack Harris as Biden’s ‘border czar.’ That was never her role

In a piece from NY1 Spectrum News on Democratic Presidential Candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris' supposed role as "Border Czar" in the ongoing immigration crisis. Harris Prof. William Howell was called upon to comment. 

As vice president, Harris has visited the U.S-Mexico border area once. And Biden certainly never named her “border czar.” Czar, the English spelling of the title once reserved for Russian and Bulgarian emperors, has been adopted in American politics to title “a special policy advisor who is appointed by the president without congressional oversight, for the purposes of coordinating and centralizing the activities of various executive branch offices,” as University of Chicago political scientist William Howell defined it. 

Read the full story here: https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2024/07/24/trump-harris-vance-immigration-debates