The roundtable hosted by the vice president will be the administration's first public event on the issue since President Joe Biden talked about it in his State of the Union speech.
The president used the term to describe Jose Antonio Ibarra, a Venezuelan who crossed the border into the U.S. and has been charged with the murder of Laken Riley.
Analysis: Biden flubbed a few prepared lines and stumbled a bit during ad-libs, but he belied the GOP caricature of him as an enfeebled old man who needs to retire.
Shaking off lackluster approval ratings and his own party’s anxiety about his political and physical health, the 81-year-old delivered on Thursday one of his feistiest speeches.
Biden will invoke Franklin Roosevelt’s address to the 77th Congress, according to a copy of the speech that was visible in a photo his office published on X.
Three current U.S. officials and a former U.S. official said the National Security Council toned down parts of Harris' widely covered speech. The vice president's office denied it was watered down.