Kamala makes time for Pitt stop

Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday traveled to Pittsburgh on her 90th day as the Biden administration’s illegal immigration czar — without yet booking a USMexico border trip.

Harris visited swing state Pennsylvania to plug the recent expansion of child tax credits and to promote union membership as part of the roughly half-dozen other assignments vying for her attention amid a migrant surge that’s seen over 170,000 crossings a month.

Harris is scheduled to talk about the tax credit expansion approved in March as part of President Biden’s American Rescue Plan Act, before helping lead a roundtable discussion as part of the Biden administration’s Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment.

Harris has been dogged by questions about not visiting the US-Mexico border to see the effects of the migration crisis — saying she is focused on the “root causes.”

The vice president’s trip this month to Guatemala and Mexico was dominated by her struggle to answer questions about the lack of a border visit, saying she would go eventually, while justifying her nonvisit by saying it would just be a “grand gesture” and that she’s from California so she already knows the border issue.

Reporters from the Associated Press, CNN and NBC News pressed Harris on the trip about when she would travel to the border — and she insisted to NBC anchor Lester Holt that she had.

“We’ve been to the border,” Harris said. “So this whole thing about the border, we’ve been to the border.”

Holt replied, “You haven’t been to the border.”