Kamala Harris is protected by huge motorcade and rifle-toting Coast Guards during Miami visit
warrior and advocate visited Miami last week to unveil her $562million investment towards 'climate resilience' - but not without a 24-vehicle motorcade and fleet of US Coast Guard response boats armed with high-powered rifles. The vice president, who attended a in March, returned to the city last Friday to announce plans for the multi-million-dollar project aimed at 'protecting local economies and the marine ecosystem' in states susceptible to extreme weather events. But despite underscoring the urgency to act on the 'profound threat' of what she dubbed a 'climate crisis', Harris herself drew attention to her own carbon footprint after flying in on Air Force Two and traveling to the event in a convoy of gas-guzzling SUVs. Photos and video footage obtained by DailyMail.com also showed the VP's security detail had covered land, air, and sea around the University of Miami's Marine Center in Virginia Key, with several USCG and Customs and Border Protection boats also deployed to the scene, in addition to local police, and Secret Service patrolling the waters on Biscayne Bay. Not only did the two-hour event require the deployment of multiple security vehicles and vessels, law enforcement members were also seen guarding the area armed with the same rifles Harris has vowed to ban. While it's common for the president and vice president's security detail to be equipped with such weapons, Harris - who has repeatedly called for The trip coincided with President Biden's signing of an executive order that the White House said will direct federal agencies to put more focus on environmental polices that do harm to communities. Her visit also comes as South Florida struggles with gas shortages after flooding last week disrupted deliveries and prompted some panic buying at the pump. The climate investment aims to help 149 coastal communities across 30 states and territories prepare for increased flooding, sea-level rise and more intense storms, the Commerce Department said in a statement. It is targeted at protecting local economies and the marine ecosystem and will include 'nature-based infrastructure projects' to shore up communities' ability to respond to extreme weather events, it said.