Kamala Harris lands in El Paso, immediately snaps at Peter Doocy

When Air Force Two touched down in El Paso, she said a few words. She was followed by DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin and, finally, Rep. Veronica Escobar. Harris took a single question, posed by FNC's chief White House Correspondent Peter Doocy. He asked why now was the right time for her first trip to the border.

Harris snapped at him, saying that this wasn't her first trip to the border. Doocy corrected himself, saying it was her first trip since getting this responsibility from Joe Biden.

When Mayorkas spoke, he said that they'd made tremendous progress with the challenge. That's a dishonest answer belied by the monthly statistics that keep getting worse and the pictures from Del Rio, TX and McAllen, TX. When Sen. Durbin spoke, he said that Congress had let the people down, which is incomplete but true. What good are new laws when the administration isn't enforcing the existing laws?

The jaw-dropping quote, though, came from Rep. Escobar when she called El Paso "the new Ellis Island." If it's the new Ellis Island, El Paso isn't treating the people well:

U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-El Paso) visited an "emergency intake" site on Fort Bliss this week, where the federal Department of Health and Human Services is currently housing more than 4,000 children who crossed the border without a parent or legal guardian. She said she found aspects of the operation, the size of its tent dormitories, the number of subcontractors on site, the slow pace of case management, "unacceptable" and "deeply alarming."

Here's the brief gaggle at the airport:

That's from the same person who called El Paso the new Ellis Island. During the visit, Secretary Mayorkas said that they'd made "tremendous progress" with the facilities. Mayorkas didn't have much credibility left before this visit. Thanks to this report, his credibility is even less:

CBS News reported this week that migrant children housed at Fort Bliss, one of several emergency housing sites set up by HHS this spring, have been constantly monitored for self-harm, escape attempts and panic attacks.

Does this sound like tremendous progress?

Some distressed teenagers at the base have been placed on one-on-one supervision 24 hours a day to make sure they don't harm themselves. Officials at the tent camp also prohibited the use of pencils, nail clippers, regular toothbrushes and metal items out of fear that children could use them to hurt themselves. 

According to federal volunteers who worked at Fort Bliss, lawyers who visited the site and testimonies from minors held there, the source of the distress and frustration among children stems largely from living conditions and prolonged stays at the tent camp, which is located in the Chihuahuan Desert.

This administration can't be trusted. Mayorkas might be the most dishonest cabinet secretary in recent history.