Posted on 08/17/2024 8:31:52 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Two months into his presidency, Joe Biden confronted a political crisis: The number of migrants illegally crossing the southern border into the United States was soaring. So he asked Vice President Kamala Harris to lead the administration’s diplomatic efforts to reduce problems at the border.
That assignment included working with three Central American countries — El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras — to improve living conditions and lower the odds that migrants would leave those countries for reasons including poverty, gang violence and corruption.
But Republicans quickly seized on the apparent diplomatic opportunity for Harris, referring to her as the country’s “border czar” responsible for all issues related to the U.S.-Mexico line. Now, more than three years later, her role is a potential political liability as she runs for president as the Democratic nominee and polls show voters broadly disapprove of the Biden administration’s handling of the border.
Harris, in fact, has never been in charge of the border. The Department of Homeland Security manages migration. Her immigration role for the Biden administration has included boosting U.S. aid to Central America, traveling to the region and discouraging potential migrants from making the dangerous journey to the United States.
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Not a dozen words in, they deceive. It is not a crisis for Biden, or any Democrat. It is a windfall.
Biden screams “Y’all come! Come on in! All are welcome.”
Biden tell Harris to go to Central America and make their lives better so they WON’T come.
What a contradiction and pile of BS.
But Trump bequeathed them the crisis! (Jk)
Tulose Orolinnipa??? WTH???
Gaslight me harder, WAPO.
“Harris, in fact, has never been in charge of the border”
Lying sacks of human debris. What else should one expect from the Washington Post. Freedom of the press is great, but they abuse with their lies.
At this point, it’s whistling past the graveyard. She was and is the Border czar because they told us that up until it wasn’t convenient.
The dirty little not so secret is that trashing Kamala was the strategy of the MSM and the Biden administration in order to make Biden look like the only viable alternative and to provide cover for him.
“You think Biden is bad, you really want Kamala?!?!”
The NYTimes editorialized that she should be off the ticket in March.
the writers need some real facts, not their made up stuff.
there is video of Biden saying he’s putting her in charge of the border, not just talking to a few countries.
there are plenty of media calling her the border czar well before republicans did.
“Czars” were aplenty during the Obungler administration.
That's a lie. It was Axios, one of many, many left-wing [propaganda bureaus like CNN, MSNBC, CBS & ABC, that coined the term "border czar" for Kamala the Hooker.
Yes, even Van Jones of CNN was a "czar" under the Barry Soetero regime.
there is video of Biden saying he’s putting her in charge of the border, not just talking to a few countries. ... there are plenty of media calling her the border czar well before republicans did.
Correct. It was Axios. Then other left-wing propaganda bureaus glommed onto the term. But now they're trying to blame "Republicans" for making everything up.
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