Kamala Harris beats Trump to the Mexican border but only just

At last the US vice president is heading for the Mexican border. It was in March that Kamala Harris was asked by Joe Biden to take responsibility for the immigration nightmare at the border. For reasons that I have never been able to understand she declined to go to the border to see for herself what all the trouble was about. Now she has decided to go but only just in time. She is going on Friday and next week one Donald Trump will be making the same journey and I'm sure he will make a big hooha about what the Biden administration is or isn't doing about immigration. And of course he has already made a lot of fuss today about how Kamala has only decided to go to the Mexican border - El Paso - once she heard he was going. Ho ho. But she opened herself up to this sort of rebuke by failing to make the trip a long time ago. There is nothing like seeing things first hand and her refusal to go until now just makes it look bad, for her and for her political future. Now when she does turn up there will be even more media focus and she will have to come away with more than a few trite comments. Had she gone in March or April she could have legitimately said she was just getting a first-hand look at the problems and would go away and think. Now, after three months have passed, she will need to produce more than that, a hint perhaps of a strategy for controlling immigration humanely. Good luck, Kamala, I think you will need it. I'm sure Trump is rubbing his hands in anticipation.