What Kamala is Missing as "Border Czar"

[Seymour Flops]

Kamala Harris’s record as border czar under scrutiny as White House seeks to boost her image - Washington Examiner

Vice President Kamala Harris, who has been much maligned for her role as border czar, is still struggling to stack up wins south of the border after 2 1/2 years as the point person of the White House initiative.Harris has been on the receiving end of Republican lawmakers' attacks since President...

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Harris’s work has unfolded largely behind closed doors, developing diplomatic relations with governments of Northern Triangle countries El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.
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“The VP has not been a major factor in any movement in border security," said Rodney Scott, distinguished senior fellow for border security at the conservative Texas Public Policy Foundation think tank and former Border Patrol chief. "The limited cooperation that the U.S. is getting from Mexico and Panama is primarily a result of relationships established by career professionals within [the Department of Homeland Security] and [Department of State], and not political appointees."

House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green (R-TN) said it was the Biden administration's own policies that had triggered the rush to the border early on in 2021.

Very shortly after appointing Harris Border Czar, the WH made it clear that the job had nothing to do with the border directly, but was to address "root causes" of illegal immigration. Nothing wrong with addressing root causes, as long as we also secure the border. Matter of fact addressing root causes would be greatly beneficial to the U.S. If done correctly.

The root cause of illegal immigration is simple: People want to leave their home countries and come to the United States because their home countries are not enough like the United States. So addressing the root causes should consist entirely of helping those countries become more like the U.S.

I don't think Harris gets this at all. Democrats think that the U.S. role in helping third world countries should consist only in giving money to their corrupt governments and apologizing to them.

Call it "The Americanization Project." Frankly, it would be the foreign aid program most beneficial to the United States. The more like us other countries are, the more productive they will be and the better trading partners they will be.

 

[leftwinger]

foreign aid program most beneficial to the United States. The more like us other countries are, the more productive they will be and the better trading partners they will be.

Hogwash. Trillions have been handed out over decades. All it does is prop up the criminals at the top who steal it all to instantly become massively wealthy. Too many example to name. During Trump years they handed it out also. 100% wasted.

 

[Seymour Flops]

Hogwash. Trillions have been handed out over decades. All it does is prop up the criminals at the top who steal it all to instantly become massively wealthy. Too many example to name. During Trump years they handed it out also. 100% wasted.

Yes, because those handouts have been meant to enable the countries to be unlike the United States and still survive.

Aid targeted to helping them become like us, and contingent on them making the effort to do so can be effective.

We'd be far better off surrounded by mini-Americas, than by third world shitholes.

Of course, the money might be better spent helping America itself go back to being more like America, but that's a different thread.

 

[Moonglow]

The end result of the border situation is not a US law conflict but a behind-the-scenes project the elites have going on.

 

[August West]

Every leader that tried to help those countries was eliminated by us. We called them commies and that`s all that it took. Arbenz in Guatemala is Exhibit A
Decades of rule by rightwing dictators wrecked that part of the world and those are our chickens at the border coming home to roost. Quasi-Socialistic Costa Rica is the only country that we didn`t meddle with and it`s the only country where people want into and not out of.
Jacobo Arbenz | Guatemalan President, CIA Coup & Legacy

 

[Moonglow]

She missed a free lunch provided by donations to Trump's election campaign.

 

[luiza]

The end result of the border situation is not a US law conflict but a behind-the-scenes project the elites have going on.

Where did you pull that from ?

Huge truth in your comment .
Was it meant as sarcasm but turned out to be a lucky guess ?
I need to rest a minute .

 

[Moonglow]

Where did you pull that from ?

Huge truth in your comment .
Was it meant as sarcasm but turned out to be a lucky guess ?
I need to rest a minute .

I voted for Reagan in 1980 and was very upset over amnesty and decided at that time that the fix was in,.Most of the time I am toying with yer affections but you need rest.

 

[AMart]

Because whoever runs the WH wants an open border. Biden ran on flooding the country with illegal.

 

[Seymour Flops]

Every leader that tried to help those countries was eliminated by us. We called them commies and that`s all that it took. Arbenz in Guatemala is Exhibit A
Decades of rule by rightwing dictators wrecked that part of the world and those are our chickens at the border coming home to roost. Quasi-Socialistic Costa Rica is the only country that we didn`t meddle with and it`s the only country where people want into and not out of.
Jacobo Arbenz | Guatemalan President, CIA Coup & Legacy

All true enough.

That's why I'm advocating that we change our method of helping those countries.