Posted on 06/24/2021 5:50:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Kamala Harris, who's Joe Biden's border surge czar focused on "root causes" very specifically in Central America, is finally going to the border.
According to Fox News:
Vice President Kamala Harris is set to visit the U.S.-Mexico border on Friday, the White House confirmed, amid mounting criticism from both Republicans and some Democrats for not yet doing so, following her appointment by President Biden to handle the "root causes" of migration.
Obviously, she's doing so because President Trump has announced that he will be touring the border with Texas's Gov. Greg Abbott, which would be about the only thing that could explain the hasty timing of the announcement. Trump certainly pointed that out. Prior to that, she had just giggled when asked about going to the border -- again and again and again, digging in stubbornly, and at times utterly refusing to go, dismissing border trips as photo ops as if to suggest she was supposedly deep and serious about resolving the border surge with all those root causes and there was nothing to learn from migrants themselves propelling themselves over the border illegally, even as embattled Democratic congressmen from border surge regions called for her to pay attention to what was going on in their districts. It actually sounded as though she didn't think she would like what she would find.
Nope, she wouldn't go, might call attention to the hard reality that the Biden administration invited the border surgers in, and being border surgers, they came. Plus, the opportunities for selfies and Instagram glamour shots were, at best, minimal, in most hardscrabble border towns.
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Da Ho don’t want to do no mo.
Kamala Harris is going to the border.
But not just any part of the border. The destination of choice for Biden's migrant-surge czar in her quest to find all those "root causes" of illegal migration from Central America is ... El Paso.
One problem: It's not the destination of choice for Central America's illegal border crossers. Some do cross there, but most of those apprehended by the lawmen in El Paso come from someplace else.
Here's the Border Patrol's statistics for 2021 on who's crossing in its El Paso corridor.
So even by Harris's own reckoning, that as border czar she's only focusing on Central America's role in the border surge, you can see that she's going to a place where the majority of illegal crossers are coming from nations other than Central American ones. Central Americans from the Northern Triangle countries of Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala form less than a third of Border Patrol "encounters" with illegal crossers in that area. About a third come from Mexico which has proximity to the states, but most come from countries well outside the area Harris is supposedly focusing on.
So when she comes to the border, she's more likely to meet Venezuelans, Cubans, Indians, Nigerians, Brazilians, Ecuadoreans, and Haitians than actual Hondurans, Guatemalans, or Salvadorans.
The Border Patrol chart doesn't have a precise breakdown by country, but there are indicators elsewhere that suggest that it's mostly Venezuelans and Cubans, fleeing election fraud, and socialist economic rubble, who are doing the most surging on in at the El Paso corridor. Those migrants aren't going to be able to give her too much information about root causes from Central Americans that she can use for political purposes, given that many are likely to be blasting the evils of socialism rather than the evils of global warming, which is what she's looking for.
Now let's look at the places she could be going to if she wants to focus on Central Americans and all those "root causes" she says she's still boning up on. Here's the Rio Grande Valley, where the border surge is the worst:
Now there's a place where the Central Americans are surging on in. And Harris has several corridors she can pick from where at least one Central American country (or Mexico) makes up the majority of the surgers -- Big Bend, Laredo, Del Rio, Tucson among them, and the two California corridors are almost exclusively Mexican. Only El Paso and Yuma's smuggling corridors have "other" as the leading place of origin as their top category, and sure enough, Harris picked El Paso.
Nearly all of the corridors on the Customs and Border Patrol's chart -- you can click them here -- show Central Americans in the majority on the eastern parts of the U.S. border, and Mexicans in the majority on the western part of the U.S. border, with the "other" category in the middle, in El Paso (and the Yuma corridor). It tells a lot about how organized cartel smuggling gangs, which carve out "territories" operate, which might be why you'd want to go to where most Central Americans are surging in if you were serious about knowing the actual reason why they're coming.
In other words, you don't go to some place like El Paso if you want to find the root causes of Central American migrant border surges. You go where the Central American migrants actually are surging on in.
Harris isn't doing that. She's fundamentally unserious about finding root causes of migration from Central America, because she isn't even going where the most significant numbers of Central Americans are coming in.
That tells us this trip is about photo-ops, sanitized imagery, and maybe succoring political cronies, going to particular districts in exchange for particular favors.
It will be a choreographed disaster............................
She’d rather “work” on her back.
I imagine she's still kind of just wandering around in a daze, amazed at how far she's come and still surprised she's where she is at. Though she no-doubt is enjoying all the perks that come with the office she illegally occupies.
“...Why does it take Trump to get this lazy, Instagram-obsessed woman off her duff?....”
Face it... Kamel Face slept her way into the back door of the WH....and stupid old Joe, was sleepwalking his way through the front door!
It will take a lot getting even a passable performance of a competent and intelligent President and VP, out of those two poseurs.
Trump is shaming her into a half-a$#ed effort of passing herself off as a competent and credible VP
True, but the mainstream "news" sources will present it as a rousing success.
“Let’s all hear it for the Rainbow Tour...”
Heels up Harris acting like she gives a damn.
arousing....success..............................
She heard they have some large spicy chorizo down there
Just saying
Look for the border area to be all cleaned up and secured before Harris gets there with her large media following.
She’ll declare the border “secure” and everything under control for her photo-op.
Why bother going, she already knows the root cause (rascism, of course).
It’s a trap, Kamala. You will be expected to open your yap and say some things and answer some questions. To cackle or not to cackle and try to say something....
A cardboard cutout of Harris would be more effective.
Worthless and incompetent VP.
LOL. No doubt very arousing. Wow, I’m getting excited just thinking about it. :-)
Harris is going to El Paso, not the border where they are crossing the river. They don’t want the optics of seeing the actual damage the Biden administration has wrought by going to the actual border crossing trouble spots like Del Rio. The MSM will focus on the relative the peace in El Paso and try to sell the admin story that there is no crisis
RE: Harris is going to El Paso, not the border where they are crossing the river.
Yes, see Post #3 above.
Junk in the duff.
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