Posted on 06/06/2021 7:34:39 AM PDT by Theoria
A stark reality faces the vice president as she visits the region: Expanding aid programs have failed to stem migration.
An American contractor went to a small town in the Guatemalan mountains with an ambitious goal: to ignite the local economy, and hopefully even persuade people not to migrate north to the United States.
Half an hour into his meeting with coffee growers, the contractor excitedly revealed the tool he had brought to change their lives: a pamphlet inviting the farmers to download an app to check coffee prices and “be a part of modern agriculture.”
Pedro Aguilar, a coffee farmer who hadn’t asked for the training and didn’t see how it would keep anyone from heading for the border, looked confused. Eyeing the U.S. government logo on the pamphlet, he began waving it around, asking if anyone had a phone number to call the Americans “and tell them what our needs really are.”
“They’ve never helped me,” Mr. Aguilar said after the training a few weeks ago, referring to American aid programs intended to spur the economy and prevent migration. “Where does all the money go? Where’s the aid? Who knows?”
As vice president, Joseph R. Biden Jr. led an enormous push to deter people from crossing into the United States by devoting hundreds of millions of dollars to Central America, hoping to make the region more tolerable for the poor — so that fewer would abandon it.
Now, as President Biden, he is doubling down on that strategy once again and assigning his own vice president, Kamala Harris, the prickly challenge of carrying out his plan to commit $4 billion in a remarkably similar approach as she travels to the region Sunday.
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Ha. Heels Up Harris couldn’t effectively open a can of frozen orange juice.
“Can Kamala Harris?”
Anything she touches will be F’d up.
I don’t think the Ho can save her own job.
A better question would be: Does Harris want to slow illegal immigration?
(My Magic 8-Ball says “no”.)
I recall seeing Her Raunchiness at a Memorial Day celebration with the Thief In Chief.
I had to ask myself: who is she memorializing?
She has no ancestors or relatives who fought in any American war. Hell, she only has about 4 living relatives in this country now, and those people are the only ones who ever lived in the US.
Yet we are supposed to believe that she is one of us, and cares even a bit about the “border”.
Maybe a change in focus: like this is what may emerge if you don’t use a “trojan”.
a Canadian Indian could care less .
Kamala Harris’s trip has nothing to do with stemming the floods of illegals at our border. Any money handed out is to sustain the comfort of whatever leadership is in power. It certainly isn’t distributed to the people or to improve the country.
Why would anyone with common sense think that giving money would stem migration?
Maybe the underlying cause is that the people are living under a repressive regime. Maybe exporting free enterprise would keep the citizens employed and prosperous.
Democrats think that they can bribe their way with other people's money.
The biggest fools are those who voted for the foolish and corrupt "tax and spend" Democrats.
Is the current pope Catholic?
Kamala Harris can’t because there is no will to do so.
I predict that what we will see is Kamala wearing a mask and she will giggle.
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