Posted on 07/24/2024 10:51:19 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
On her first foreign trip as Vice President in June 2021, Kamala Harris was tasked with delivering a blunt message in Guatemala City. "I want to be clear to folks in this region who are thinking about making that dangerous trek to the United States-Mexico border: Do not come," she said at a press conference, pausing for effect. "Do not come."
Three years later, that sound bite may come to haunt Harris' nascent presidential campaign. Despite her warning, border crossings reached historic highs during the Biden Administration. Republican critics cast the episode as a symbol of Harris’s ineffective tenure as President Biden's "border czar," a misleading label they applied after she was charged with helming diplomatic efforts to address the root causes of migration from Central America to the U.S.
“Kamala had one job,” Nikki Haley told the crowd at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee last week. “One job. And that was to fix the border. Now imagine her in charge of the entire country.”
In fact, Harris was never put in charge of the border or immigration policy. Nor was she involved in overseeing law-enforcement efforts or guiding the federal response to the crisis. Her mandate was much narrower: to focus on examining and improving the underlying conditions in the Northern Triangle of Central America—El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras—which has been racked by decades of poverty, war, chronic violence, and political instability.
The strategy relied on allocating billions for economic programs and stimulating private-sector investment in the region in hopes that these programs would ultimately lead fewer migrants to make the dangerous journey north.
It was the first high-profile assignment in Harris' tenure as Vice President, and it was an especially thankless one. At best, addressing the “push factors” that spur migration would lead to incremental improvements ...
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
lol. Reshaping of history.
So, if they lie enough times it becomes the truth?
Yet everyone in the media called her that, and she NEVER disputed it. Nice try, Vera, but no deal. Anther media lie to add to the Everest-sized heap.
“to focus on examining and improving the underlying conditions in the Northern Triangle”
So did those conditions improve?
Lol.
Does she still have kneepad duty?
“where are the f___ing balloons!”
The mainstream press won’t be happy until it has squandered every last bit of credibility that their organizations once had.
Next Lie....”She doesn’t CACKLE”!
LOL gotta love the gaslighting, straight out of Russia
RE: So did those conditions improve?
According to TIME, you can’t see the results anytime soon. Here’s their reason ( or excuse for her ):
“At best, addressing the “push factors” that spur migration would lead to incremental improvements and take a generation to yield results. At worst, it would make Harris the face of the border crisis, one of the Biden administration’s biggest political vulnerabilities. “To the extent that this was a useful assignment, she did reasonably well in getting the private sector to invest in Central America,” says Muzaffar Chishti, a senior fellow at the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute. “But it was an assignment that could not produce results anytime soon.”
Straight out of Orwell.
Here’s TIME’s explanation of what Kamala did as “border czar” ( note the quotes ). According to the article:
* The so-called “root causes strategy” focused on improving economic and security conditions by creating jobs, combating corruption, improving human and labor rights, and reducing violence.
* Harris allocated funds for humanitarian relief from natural disasters, and
* directed more than 10 million COVID-19 vaccines to the Northern Triangle countries.
* She held bilateral meetings with the region’s leaders, as well as meetings with NGOs, business executives and human rights advocates.
* She worked with the U.S. Justice Department to launch an Anti-Corruption task force focused on prosecuting corruption cases with ties to the region, as well as Anti-Migrant Smuggling task forces in Mexico and Guatemala.
This is classic corporate DEI stuff.
You give the DEI hire a corner office with a vague assignment where results are impossible to measure and keeps them out of the way of people doing real work—and then a year later give them a very public award for outstanding accomplishments.
Her staff did that punch list.
There is no way she had a clue what was happening.
It’s getting pretty obvious that the mainstream media members have received their marching orders and talking points.
She is so stupid andinept that the White House had to send her away with something to pretend to do. That in a wayis much worse. Nevertheless, the border is a catastrophic failure and clear and present danger. Brandon and Ho didn’t uphold their constitutional duties.
One: Biden and Kamala and their media whores ALL LIED when she was installed of the border...
Two: Biden and Kamala wanted the open border
Evil bastards.
CLAIM. Vice President Kamala Harris was appointed to the position of 'Border Czar'.
RATING. False
Queue up the headlines and tapes of the day she was declared the Border Czar.
They were prime time for days.
I heard this excuse yesterday, and was (almost) in disbelief. They’re denying something that is easily proven.
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