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Rober­ta Jacob­son, Pres­i­dent Biden’s spe­cial envoy for bor­der issues who has been grap­pling with large increas­es of migrants attempt­ing to cross into the U.S., is step­ping down after 100 days on the job, the White House announced Friday.

Jacob­son, a high­ly regard­ed for­mer U.S. ambas­sador to Mex­i­co and career diplo­mat, said in an inter­view that she had always intend­ed to serve for 100 days and feels she can leave as the Biden admin­is­tra­tion has built up teams to work on the immi­gra­tion issue, includ­ing root caus­es in the home coun­tries of many migrants.

Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Har­ris was recent­ly appoint­ed by Biden to over­see diplo­ma­cy with those coun­tries — El Sal­vador, Guatemala and Hon­duras — and the U.S. Agency for Inter­na­tion­al Devel­op­ment is set­ting up an as-yet-unan­nounced spe­cial task force for Cen­tral Amer­i­ca, accord­ing to peo­ple famil­iar with the matter.