<span style="color: #222222;">US Vice-President Kamala Harris will make her first trip to the US southern border since taking office, tomorrow.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Ms Harris will travel to El Paso with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, according to White House officials.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">El Paso, Texas, has found reports of sexual abuse, COVID and lice outbreaks, hungry children being served undercooked meat and sandstorms engulfing the desert tent camps where the minors are being held.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">She has faced questions about why she has not visited the boundary since the White House assigned her in March to address the root causes of migration.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The visit was announced a week after former President Donald Trump said he would go to the border on 30 June.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The number of undocumented migrants reaching the US-Mexico border is at the highest level in more than 20 years.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the Vice-President was going because the administration had determined now is the appropriate time for her to go to the border and help get the situation under control.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Earlier this month, Ms Harris made her first trip abroad as Vice-President – travelling to Mexico and Guatemala for talks about the humanitarian crisis.</span><br />''  <br />