{"id":48398,"date":"2021-06-23T18:11:36","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T18:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48398"},"modified":"2021-06-23T18:11:36","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T18:11:36","slug":"vp-harris-to-visit-texas-will-gov-abbott-be-there-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48398","title":{"rendered":"VP Harris to visit Texas &#8230; will Gov. Abbott be there, too?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/harris.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-48399\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/harris-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/harris-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/harris-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/harris-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/harris.jpg 1123w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By John Kanelis<\/strong> \/ <a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Vice President Kamala Harris, who&#8217;s taken her share of hits for failing &#8212; so far &#8212; to visit the U.S. southern border after being put in charge of handling the immigration crisis, is coming to see it for herself.<\/p>\n<p>She arrives Friday in El Paso.<\/p>\n<p>OK, she&#8217;s been a bit late in laying eyes on the crisis. Some of the criticism is warranted. I won&#8217;t pile on here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/kamala-harris-is-set-to-visit-the-border\/ar-AALmnhA?ocid=msedgntp\">Kamala Harris is set to visit the border (msn.com)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I do want to know, though, whether Texas Gov. Greg Abbott will be on hand to greet her as she arrives. Will the <em>Republican<\/em> governor meet with the <em>Democratic<\/em> VP to discuss common problems and search for common solutions? Or will he continue to take pot shots at the Joe Biden administration, declaring its immigration policy to be a failure while asserting his desire to build a wall along the state&#8217;s entire border with Mexico?<\/p>\n<p>Good government requires teamwork among state and federal officials. Here is a chance, I submit, for Gov. Abbott to join with Vice President Harris in ensuring that Texas is on the same page with President Biden and his immigration team led by the vice president.<\/p>\n<p>I hope to see Gov. Abbott on hand to lend his voice to this important discussion.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Kanelis \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com Vice President Kamala Harris, who&#8217;s taken her share of hits for failing &#8212; so far &#8212; to visit the U.S. southern border after being put in charge of handling the immigration crisis, is coming to see it for herself. She arrives Friday in El Paso. OK, she&#8217;s been a bit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48398\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VP Harris to visit Texas &#8230; will Gov. Abbott be there, too?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[2006,2505,8357],"class_list":["post-48398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news","tag-greg-abbott","tag-joe-biden","tag-kamala-harris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48400,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48398\/revisions\/48400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}