The U.S. Senate is voting on legislation for emergency funding to combat the humanitarian and national security crisis on the country’s southern border, but Sen. Elizabeth Warren has more important things to do.

“Instead of making it to the Senate vote on emergency border funding at 2pm, Elizabeth Warren is holding a photo op outside the Homestead Detention Center in Florida to talk about … (you guessed it) the need for emergency border funding,” Caleb Hull posted to Twitter Wednesday.

Warren donned a cardigan sweater, cap, and sunglasses in the 90-degree Florida weather as she shouted through a megaphone outside the immigrant detention center, where she alleged the mistreatment and substandard care of illegal immigrants “is a stain on our country.”

“And we must speak out. We speak out as a people, we speak out as moral citizens, not just of the United States, but of the world,” the Massachusetts senator told the crowd.

The publicity stunt comes the same day Democrats vying to take on President Trump in 2020 will host the first primary debate in Miami. Warren, who is rising in national polls behind Sen. Bernie Sanders and former vice president Joe Biden, obviously opted to focus on her campaign for president over her commitment to constituents.

“When we see something that’s wrong we are called on not to stand by, not to be quiet, not to look the other way, but to come and to witness and to speak out,” Warren said in a video of the Florida protest posted by her campaign. “We will stay at Homestead until this facility releases these children and closes down.”

Or until the Democratic debate starts in Miami at 9 p.m.

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And while Warren was campaigning in Florida, her colleagues in the Senate voted down a $4.5 billion funding bill approved in the House to address the crisis at the border. Senators killed the House bill, which President Trump vowed to veto, by a vote of 55 to 37, Fox News reports.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the bill by House Democrats rejected in the Senate was “filled with poison pill riders which the president has indicated he would veto.”

“They had to drag their bill way to the left to earn the support of most Democrats,” he said. “As a result, the House has not made much progress toward actually making a law, just more resistance theater.”

Lawmakers in the upper chamber are expected to vote on a more bi-partisan bill later Wednesday afternoon that is far more likely to pass, Fox News reports, though Warren won’t be present for that vote, either.

In essence, while Warren is “witnessing” and bemoaning conditions for illegal immigrants, she’s willfully ignoring her sworn duty to do something about it, instead using the emotional and heart-wrenching situation as fodder for her presidential campaign.

Meanwhile, over 100,000 illegal immigrants are pouring across the southern border every month, some with armed guards, others toting children that aren’t theirs, others risking their lives and the lives of their children to traverse inhospitable deserts or raging river currents to get into the land of opportunity.

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In the last couple months alone, border agents have rescued amputee migrants dumped in the Rio Grande River by cartel smugglers, recovered abandoned children that died in the desert from dehydration, rescued lost migrants who attempted to cross the border through a military bombing range, and documented thousands of migrants from Africa and terrorist countries exploiting the situation to circumvent the legal immigration system.

They’re all serious issues stemming from a broken immigration system that’s plagued America for decades, including Warren’s entire tenure in the Senate, though the senator from Massachusetts showed little concern about the crisis until she decided to run for president.