http://www.axios.com/2024/02/12/how-biden-botched-borderNot crazy about the bulleted format of the Axios story, but highlights:
-no one wants to touch it all seeing it as a political loser, even at Cabinet-level meetings the deputies get sent
-Harris:
Vice President Kamala Harris and her office made clear to others in the administration that her responsibilities began and ended with the factors driving people to leave Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador — the issue Biden had assigned her to examine.
As the migration became more global, Harris' team remained focused on the Northern Triangle and Mexico.
A former Biden administration senior official told Axios: "She's been at best ineffective, and at worst sporadically engaged and not seeing it was her responsibility. It's an opportunity for her, and she didn't fill the breach."
-Jake Sullivan left much of his portfolio on the border to Liz Sherwood-Randall who Biden overburdens on the task but is inexperienced on the issue
-clashing strategy and ideology has led to a few 180-degree turns
-administration made a decision to never send Mayorkas on TV until recently
-Susan Rice had taken a central coordinator role on the issue and was controversial, Rice hated Xavier Becerra, and her and Harris hated each other coming out of the aftermath of the VP selection in summer 2020
