Can you post her responsibilities as Border Czar? Should be easy to find.tech37 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 8:45 amExcellent evaluation by wsj. Thanks for posting.old salt wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 12:02 am Kamala's detailed speech on immigration begs the question -- what has the Border Czar been doing for the past 3+ years ?https://www.wsj.com/opinion/kamala-harr ... _now_opn_1
Harris Spins a New Border Tale
Blaming the surge on Republicans evades years of failed policies.
by The Editorial Board, Sept. 27, 2024
The U.S.-Mexico border on Friday was the latest stop on Kamala Harris’s reinvention tour, and defending her record there will take more than a smile and shifting blame. She criticized Donald Trump and Republicans for rejecting a bipartisan Senate deal, as we did at the time. But as usual she blew past the steps that she and President Biden failed to take for more than three years as illegal migrant border crossings surged to record levels.
The Vice President chose Douglas, Ariz., for her border speech, hoping to convince swing-state voters that she’s serious about reducing the flow of migrants. The visit represents a shift to Plan B after the failure of her first strategy, which was to dodge the issue. Her campaign spent the first weeks after she gained the nomination telling the press that President Biden had never named her “border czar.”
But residents in border towns like Douglas aren’t likely to forget how security has unraveled on her Administration’s watch. More than 10 million migrants have been apprehended nationwide during the Biden Presidency, with a peak of 3.2 million last fiscal year. That compares with about three million in total under President Trump.
Democrats blame the surge on problems the White House had little power to fix, like the worldwide spread of Covid and disarray in countries such as Venezuela and Haiti. But Biden-Harris policies kept the border valve open while those forces built pressure.
The Administration signaled its openness to migrants in its first week when President Biden said he’d cancel Title 42, a policy Mr. Trump used to expel border crossers before they could claim asylum. The next month Mr. Biden moved to end Remain in Mexico, another Trump practice that kept migrants south of the border while they awaited legal entry.
The pace of migration rose again last year when Title 42 was finally ended after years of litigation, and the Administration had failed for two years to enact another deterrent. There was plenty of tough talk; Ms. Harris told Guatemalans “do not come” in 2021, and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas said “the border is closed.” Yet Mr. Mayorkas backed away from several policy restrictions, such as requiring all migrants to seek asylum in countries they cross en route to the U.S.
Ms. Harris now says all this is moot because Mr. Trump and Congressional Republicans shot down a bill that would have boosted border security. The plan, which collapsed in February, included a higher standard for asylum claims, and would have halted claims once crossings surpassed a weekly average of 5,000 a day.
The bill would have helped at the margin, assuming the Administration had enforced it—and doubts about the latter were part of the political rub. Since the spring, the Administration has required migrants to claim asylum only at ports of entry, and border crossings have fallen sharply. The President had this authority all along but was unwilling to use it for fear of offending his party’s left wing.
This record of failure has been especially frustrating for anyone who favors generous legal immigration, as we do. The surge of migrants and its spread of fiscal, housing and law enforcement woes has soured public support.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement told Texas Rep. Tony Gonzales this week that, as of July 21, “there were 662,566 noncitizens with criminal histories on ICE’s national docket,” detained and non-detained. This plays into the hands of border restrictionists.
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Ms. Harris says it’s possible to have both border security and a humane immigration system. That’s true, but that requires an Administration willing to enforce the rules. President Biden hasn’t.
Ms. Harris says she will, and we’d like to believe it. But even after the last three years, she refuses to call the Biden policies a failure. If she won’t admit that now to win over swing voters, why would she risk the left’s wrath once she’s elected? It takes a great leap of political faith to believe she won’t revert to Biden form.
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Then why ask?Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 9:10 amCan you post her responsibilities as Border Czar? Should be easy to find.tech37 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 8:45 amExcellent evaluation by wsj. Thanks for posting.old salt wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 12:02 am Kamala's detailed speech on immigration begs the question -- what has the Border Czar been doing for the past 3+ years ?https://www.wsj.com/opinion/kamala-harr ... _now_opn_1
Harris Spins a New Border Tale
Blaming the surge on Republicans evades years of failed policies.
by The Editorial Board, Sept. 27, 2024
The U.S.-Mexico border on Friday was the latest stop on Kamala Harris’s reinvention tour, and defending her record there will take more than a smile and shifting blame. She criticized Donald Trump and Republicans for rejecting a bipartisan Senate deal, as we did at the time. But as usual she blew past the steps that she and President Biden failed to take for more than three years as illegal migrant border crossings surged to record levels.
The Vice President chose Douglas, Ariz., for her border speech, hoping to convince swing-state voters that she’s serious about reducing the flow of migrants. The visit represents a shift to Plan B after the failure of her first strategy, which was to dodge the issue. Her campaign spent the first weeks after she gained the nomination telling the press that President Biden had never named her “border czar.”
But residents in border towns like Douglas aren’t likely to forget how security has unraveled on her Administration’s watch. More than 10 million migrants have been apprehended nationwide during the Biden Presidency, with a peak of 3.2 million last fiscal year. That compares with about three million in total under President Trump.
Democrats blame the surge on problems the White House had little power to fix, like the worldwide spread of Covid and disarray in countries such as Venezuela and Haiti. But Biden-Harris policies kept the border valve open while those forces built pressure.
The Administration signaled its openness to migrants in its first week when President Biden said he’d cancel Title 42, a policy Mr. Trump used to expel border crossers before they could claim asylum. The next month Mr. Biden moved to end Remain in Mexico, another Trump practice that kept migrants south of the border while they awaited legal entry.
The pace of migration rose again last year when Title 42 was finally ended after years of litigation, and the Administration had failed for two years to enact another deterrent. There was plenty of tough talk; Ms. Harris told Guatemalans “do not come” in 2021, and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas said “the border is closed.” Yet Mr. Mayorkas backed away from several policy restrictions, such as requiring all migrants to seek asylum in countries they cross en route to the U.S.
Ms. Harris now says all this is moot because Mr. Trump and Congressional Republicans shot down a bill that would have boosted border security. The plan, which collapsed in February, included a higher standard for asylum claims, and would have halted claims once crossings surpassed a weekly average of 5,000 a day.
The bill would have helped at the margin, assuming the Administration had enforced it—and doubts about the latter were part of the political rub. Since the spring, the Administration has required migrants to claim asylum only at ports of entry, and border crossings have fallen sharply. The President had this authority all along but was unwilling to use it for fear of offending his party’s left wing.
This record of failure has been especially frustrating for anyone who favors generous legal immigration, as we do. The surge of migrants and its spread of fiscal, housing and law enforcement woes has soured public support.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement told Texas Rep. Tony Gonzales this week that, as of July 21, “there were 662,566 noncitizens with criminal histories on ICE’s national docket,” detained and non-detained. This plays into the hands of border restrictionists.
***
Ms. Harris says it’s possible to have both border security and a humane immigration system. That’s true, but that requires an Administration willing to enforce the rules. President Biden hasn’t.
Ms. Harris says she will, and we’d like to believe it. But even after the last three years, she refuses to call the Biden policies a failure. If she won’t admit that now to win over swing voters, why would she risk the left’s wrath once she’s elected? It takes a great leap of political faith to believe she won’t revert to Biden form.
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+1.. A Harris administration will be as effective as the Biden administration was. Kamala just has to hope that enough people will believe her big lie until after the election. Then she can go back to business as usual and ignore the border like her boss did.tech37 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 9:12 amThen why ask?Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 9:10 amCan you post her responsibilities as Border Czar? Should be easy to find.tech37 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 8:45 amExcellent evaluation by wsj. Thanks for posting.old salt wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 12:02 am Kamala's detailed speech on immigration begs the question -- what has the Border Czar been doing for the past 3+ years ?https://www.wsj.com/opinion/kamala-harr ... _now_opn_1
Harris Spins a New Border Tale
Blaming the surge on Republicans evades years of failed policies.
by The Editorial Board, Sept. 27, 2024
The U.S.-Mexico border on Friday was the latest stop on Kamala Harris’s reinvention tour, and defending her record there will take more than a smile and shifting blame. She criticized Donald Trump and Republicans for rejecting a bipartisan Senate deal, as we did at the time. But as usual she blew past the steps that she and President Biden failed to take for more than three years as illegal migrant border crossings surged to record levels.
The Vice President chose Douglas, Ariz., for her border speech, hoping to convince swing-state voters that she’s serious about reducing the flow of migrants. The visit represents a shift to Plan B after the failure of her first strategy, which was to dodge the issue. Her campaign spent the first weeks after she gained the nomination telling the press that President Biden had never named her “border czar.”
But residents in border towns like Douglas aren’t likely to forget how security has unraveled on her Administration’s watch. More than 10 million migrants have been apprehended nationwide during the Biden Presidency, with a peak of 3.2 million last fiscal year. That compares with about three million in total under President Trump.
Democrats blame the surge on problems the White House had little power to fix, like the worldwide spread of Covid and disarray in countries such as Venezuela and Haiti. But Biden-Harris policies kept the border valve open while those forces built pressure.
The Administration signaled its openness to migrants in its first week when President Biden said he’d cancel Title 42, a policy Mr. Trump used to expel border crossers before they could claim asylum. The next month Mr. Biden moved to end Remain in Mexico, another Trump practice that kept migrants south of the border while they awaited legal entry.
The pace of migration rose again last year when Title 42 was finally ended after years of litigation, and the Administration had failed for two years to enact another deterrent. There was plenty of tough talk; Ms. Harris told Guatemalans “do not come” in 2021, and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas said “the border is closed.” Yet Mr. Mayorkas backed away from several policy restrictions, such as requiring all migrants to seek asylum in countries they cross en route to the U.S.
Ms. Harris now says all this is moot because Mr. Trump and Congressional Republicans shot down a bill that would have boosted border security. The plan, which collapsed in February, included a higher standard for asylum claims, and would have halted claims once crossings surpassed a weekly average of 5,000 a day.
The bill would have helped at the margin, assuming the Administration had enforced it—and doubts about the latter were part of the political rub. Since the spring, the Administration has required migrants to claim asylum only at ports of entry, and border crossings have fallen sharply. The President had this authority all along but was unwilling to use it for fear of offending his party’s left wing.
This record of failure has been especially frustrating for anyone who favors generous legal immigration, as we do. The surge of migrants and its spread of fiscal, housing and law enforcement woes has soured public support.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement told Texas Rep. Tony Gonzales this week that, as of July 21, “there were 662,566 noncitizens with criminal histories on ICE’s national docket,” detained and non-detained. This plays into the hands of border restrictionists.
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Ms. Harris says it’s possible to have both border security and a humane immigration system. That’s true, but that requires an Administration willing to enforce the rules. President Biden hasn’t.
Ms. Harris says she will, and we’d like to believe it. But even after the last three years, she refuses to call the Biden policies a failure. If she won’t admit that now to win over swing voters, why would she risk the left’s wrath once she’s elected? It takes a great leap of political faith to believe she won’t revert to Biden form.
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Re: Who is supporting the immigrant caravan?
Kamala was set up to fail by Biden (who said that her voice is mine) and Mayorkas who came out and cancelled everything from the last adminstration : https://x.com/TonySeruga/status/1840052515989065976
She couldn't' have said it any more clearly: https://x.com/mazemoore/status/1839839244086345739
She couldn't' have said it any more clearly: https://x.com/mazemoore/status/1839839244086345739
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Re: Who is supporting the immigrant caravan?
I'm afraid that is true.cradleandshoot wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 9:18 am+1.. A Harris administration will be as effective as the Biden administration was. Kamala just has to hope that enough people will believe her big lie until after the election. Then she can go back to business as usual and ignore the border like her boss did.tech37 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 9:12 amThen why ask?Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 9:10 amCan you post her responsibilities as Border Czar? Should be easy to find.tech37 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 8:45 amExcellent evaluation by wsj. Thanks for posting.old salt wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 12:02 am Kamala's detailed speech on immigration begs the question -- what has the Border Czar been doing for the past 3+ years ?https://www.wsj.com/opinion/kamala-harr ... _now_opn_1
Harris Spins a New Border Tale
Blaming the surge on Republicans evades years of failed policies.
by The Editorial Board, Sept. 27, 2024
The U.S.-Mexico border on Friday was the latest stop on Kamala Harris’s reinvention tour, and defending her record there will take more than a smile and shifting blame. She criticized Donald Trump and Republicans for rejecting a bipartisan Senate deal, as we did at the time. But as usual she blew past the steps that she and President Biden failed to take for more than three years as illegal migrant border crossings surged to record levels.
The Vice President chose Douglas, Ariz., for her border speech, hoping to convince swing-state voters that she’s serious about reducing the flow of migrants. The visit represents a shift to Plan B after the failure of her first strategy, which was to dodge the issue. Her campaign spent the first weeks after she gained the nomination telling the press that President Biden had never named her “border czar.”
But residents in border towns like Douglas aren’t likely to forget how security has unraveled on her Administration’s watch. More than 10 million migrants have been apprehended nationwide during the Biden Presidency, with a peak of 3.2 million last fiscal year. That compares with about three million in total under President Trump.
Democrats blame the surge on problems the White House had little power to fix, like the worldwide spread of Covid and disarray in countries such as Venezuela and Haiti. But Biden-Harris policies kept the border valve open while those forces built pressure.
The Administration signaled its openness to migrants in its first week when President Biden said he’d cancel Title 42, a policy Mr. Trump used to expel border crossers before they could claim asylum. The next month Mr. Biden moved to end Remain in Mexico, another Trump practice that kept migrants south of the border while they awaited legal entry.
The pace of migration rose again last year when Title 42 was finally ended after years of litigation, and the Administration had failed for two years to enact another deterrent. There was plenty of tough talk; Ms. Harris told Guatemalans “do not come” in 2021, and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas said “the border is closed.” Yet Mr. Mayorkas backed away from several policy restrictions, such as requiring all migrants to seek asylum in countries they cross en route to the U.S.
Ms. Harris now says all this is moot because Mr. Trump and Congressional Republicans shot down a bill that would have boosted border security. The plan, which collapsed in February, included a higher standard for asylum claims, and would have halted claims once crossings surpassed a weekly average of 5,000 a day.
The bill would have helped at the margin, assuming the Administration had enforced it—and doubts about the latter were part of the political rub. Since the spring, the Administration has required migrants to claim asylum only at ports of entry, and border crossings have fallen sharply. The President had this authority all along but was unwilling to use it for fear of offending his party’s left wing.
This record of failure has been especially frustrating for anyone who favors generous legal immigration, as we do. The surge of migrants and its spread of fiscal, housing and law enforcement woes has soured public support.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement told Texas Rep. Tony Gonzales this week that, as of July 21, “there were 662,566 noncitizens with criminal histories on ICE’s national docket,” detained and non-detained. This plays into the hands of border restrictionists.
***
Ms. Harris says it’s possible to have both border security and a humane immigration system. That’s true, but that requires an Administration willing to enforce the rules. President Biden hasn’t.
Ms. Harris says she will, and we’d like to believe it. But even after the last three years, she refuses to call the Biden policies a failure. If she won’t admit that now to win over swing voters, why would she risk the left’s wrath once she’s elected? It takes a great leap of political faith to believe she won’t revert to Biden form.
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A leopard can't change its spots. She just has to keep up her lie until after the election. She likely will backtrack on her lie about suddenly supporting fracking. She is only changing her policy to suck up to the voters in Pennsylvania. Her policies will likely line back up with her values if she wins. No way she will take the backlash from her friends in the environmental extremist movement. I'm wondering how the usual suspects on this forum will defend her when she backtracks on her promises? They will probably blame it on trump? I'm a middle class American and I sure as hell don't expect her administration to do anything different than any other administration over the decades. What gullible American doesn't want to hear a politician telling them that they got your back.tech37 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 9:20 amI'm afraid that is true.cradleandshoot wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 9:18 am+1.. A Harris administration will be as effective as the Biden administration was. Kamala just has to hope that enough people will believe her big lie until after the election. Then she can go back to business as usual and ignore the border like her boss did.tech37 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 9:12 amThen why ask?Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 9:10 amCan you post her responsibilities as Border Czar? Should be easy to find.tech37 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 8:45 amExcellent evaluation by wsj. Thanks for posting.old salt wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 12:02 am Kamala's detailed speech on immigration begs the question -- what has the Border Czar been doing for the past 3+ years ?https://www.wsj.com/opinion/kamala-harr ... _now_opn_1
Harris Spins a New Border Tale
Blaming the surge on Republicans evades years of failed policies.
by The Editorial Board, Sept. 27, 2024
The U.S.-Mexico border on Friday was the latest stop on Kamala Harris’s reinvention tour, and defending her record there will take more than a smile and shifting blame. She criticized Donald Trump and Republicans for rejecting a bipartisan Senate deal, as we did at the time. But as usual she blew past the steps that she and President Biden failed to take for more than three years as illegal migrant border crossings surged to record levels.
The Vice President chose Douglas, Ariz., for her border speech, hoping to convince swing-state voters that she’s serious about reducing the flow of migrants. The visit represents a shift to Plan B after the failure of her first strategy, which was to dodge the issue. Her campaign spent the first weeks after she gained the nomination telling the press that President Biden had never named her “border czar.”
But residents in border towns like Douglas aren’t likely to forget how security has unraveled on her Administration’s watch. More than 10 million migrants have been apprehended nationwide during the Biden Presidency, with a peak of 3.2 million last fiscal year. That compares with about three million in total under President Trump.
Democrats blame the surge on problems the White House had little power to fix, like the worldwide spread of Covid and disarray in countries such as Venezuela and Haiti. But Biden-Harris policies kept the border valve open while those forces built pressure.
The Administration signaled its openness to migrants in its first week when President Biden said he’d cancel Title 42, a policy Mr. Trump used to expel border crossers before they could claim asylum. The next month Mr. Biden moved to end Remain in Mexico, another Trump practice that kept migrants south of the border while they awaited legal entry.
The pace of migration rose again last year when Title 42 was finally ended after years of litigation, and the Administration had failed for two years to enact another deterrent. There was plenty of tough talk; Ms. Harris told Guatemalans “do not come” in 2021, and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas said “the border is closed.” Yet Mr. Mayorkas backed away from several policy restrictions, such as requiring all migrants to seek asylum in countries they cross en route to the U.S.
Ms. Harris now says all this is moot because Mr. Trump and Congressional Republicans shot down a bill that would have boosted border security. The plan, which collapsed in February, included a higher standard for asylum claims, and would have halted claims once crossings surpassed a weekly average of 5,000 a day.
The bill would have helped at the margin, assuming the Administration had enforced it—and doubts about the latter were part of the political rub. Since the spring, the Administration has required migrants to claim asylum only at ports of entry, and border crossings have fallen sharply. The President had this authority all along but was unwilling to use it for fear of offending his party’s left wing.
This record of failure has been especially frustrating for anyone who favors generous legal immigration, as we do. The surge of migrants and its spread of fiscal, housing and law enforcement woes has soured public support.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement told Texas Rep. Tony Gonzales this week that, as of July 21, “there were 662,566 noncitizens with criminal histories on ICE’s national docket,” detained and non-detained. This plays into the hands of border restrictionists.
***
Ms. Harris says it’s possible to have both border security and a humane immigration system. That’s true, but that requires an Administration willing to enforce the rules. President Biden hasn’t.
Ms. Harris says she will, and we’d like to believe it. But even after the last three years, she refuses to call the Biden policies a failure. If she won’t admit that now to win over swing voters, why would she risk the left’s wrath once she’s elected? It takes a great leap of political faith to believe she won’t revert to Biden form.
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Re: Who is supporting the immigrant caravan?
Soon after Mr. Biden's announcement, Republicans sought to blame Harris for the Biden administration's woes at the U.S.-Mexico border, where American officials have reported record levels of illegal crossings in the past three years. In a phone conversation with CBS News on Saturday, former President Donald Trump said Harris presided over the "worst border ever" as "border czar," a title her Republican detractors often give her.tech37 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 9:12 amThen why ask?Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 9:10 amCan you post her responsibilities as Border Czar? Should be easy to find.tech37 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 8:45 amExcellent evaluation by wsj. Thanks for posting.old salt wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 12:02 am Kamala's detailed speech on immigration begs the question -- what has the Border Czar been doing for the past 3+ years ?https://www.wsj.com/opinion/kamala-harr ... _now_opn_1
Harris Spins a New Border Tale
Blaming the surge on Republicans evades years of failed policies.
by The Editorial Board, Sept. 27, 2024
The U.S.-Mexico border on Friday was the latest stop on Kamala Harris’s reinvention tour, and defending her record there will take more than a smile and shifting blame. She criticized Donald Trump and Republicans for rejecting a bipartisan Senate deal, as we did at the time. But as usual she blew past the steps that she and President Biden failed to take for more than three years as illegal migrant border crossings surged to record levels.
The Vice President chose Douglas, Ariz., for her border speech, hoping to convince swing-state voters that she’s serious about reducing the flow of migrants. The visit represents a shift to Plan B after the failure of her first strategy, which was to dodge the issue. Her campaign spent the first weeks after she gained the nomination telling the press that President Biden had never named her “border czar.”
But residents in border towns like Douglas aren’t likely to forget how security has unraveled on her Administration’s watch. More than 10 million migrants have been apprehended nationwide during the Biden Presidency, with a peak of 3.2 million last fiscal year. That compares with about three million in total under President Trump.
Democrats blame the surge on problems the White House had little power to fix, like the worldwide spread of Covid and disarray in countries such as Venezuela and Haiti. But Biden-Harris policies kept the border valve open while those forces built pressure.
The Administration signaled its openness to migrants in its first week when President Biden said he’d cancel Title 42, a policy Mr. Trump used to expel border crossers before they could claim asylum. The next month Mr. Biden moved to end Remain in Mexico, another Trump practice that kept migrants south of the border while they awaited legal entry.
The pace of migration rose again last year when Title 42 was finally ended after years of litigation, and the Administration had failed for two years to enact another deterrent. There was plenty of tough talk; Ms. Harris told Guatemalans “do not come” in 2021, and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas said “the border is closed.” Yet Mr. Mayorkas backed away from several policy restrictions, such as requiring all migrants to seek asylum in countries they cross en route to the U.S.
Ms. Harris now says all this is moot because Mr. Trump and Congressional Republicans shot down a bill that would have boosted border security. The plan, which collapsed in February, included a higher standard for asylum claims, and would have halted claims once crossings surpassed a weekly average of 5,000 a day.
The bill would have helped at the margin, assuming the Administration had enforced it—and doubts about the latter were part of the political rub. Since the spring, the Administration has required migrants to claim asylum only at ports of entry, and border crossings have fallen sharply. The President had this authority all along but was unwilling to use it for fear of offending his party’s left wing.
This record of failure has been especially frustrating for anyone who favors generous legal immigration, as we do. The surge of migrants and its spread of fiscal, housing and law enforcement woes has soured public support.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement told Texas Rep. Tony Gonzales this week that, as of July 21, “there were 662,566 noncitizens with criminal histories on ICE’s national docket,” detained and non-detained. This plays into the hands of border restrictionists.
***
Ms. Harris says it’s possible to have both border security and a humane immigration system. That’s true, but that requires an Administration willing to enforce the rules. President Biden hasn’t.
Ms. Harris says she will, and we’d like to believe it. But even after the last three years, she refuses to call the Biden policies a failure. If she won’t admit that now to win over swing voters, why would she risk the left’s wrath once she’s elected? It takes a great leap of political faith to believe she won’t revert to Biden form.
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Re: Who is supporting the immigrant caravan?
and... "you sound stupid"Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 9:52 amSoon after Mr. Biden's announcement, Republicans sought to blame Harris for the Biden administration's woes at the U.S.-Mexico border, where American officials have reported record levels of illegal crossings in the past three years. In a phone conversation with CBS News on Saturday, former President Donald Trump said Harris presided over the "worst border ever" as "border czar," a title her Republican detractors often give her.tech37 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 9:12 amThen why ask?Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 9:10 amCan you post her responsibilities as Border Czar? Should be easy to find.tech37 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 8:45 amExcellent evaluation by wsj. Thanks for posting.old salt wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 12:02 am Kamala's detailed speech on immigration begs the question -- what has the Border Czar been doing for the past 3+ years ?https://www.wsj.com/opinion/kamala-harr ... _now_opn_1
Harris Spins a New Border Tale
Blaming the surge on Republicans evades years of failed policies.
by The Editorial Board, Sept. 27, 2024
The U.S.-Mexico border on Friday was the latest stop on Kamala Harris’s reinvention tour, and defending her record there will take more than a smile and shifting blame. She criticized Donald Trump and Republicans for rejecting a bipartisan Senate deal, as we did at the time. But as usual she blew past the steps that she and President Biden failed to take for more than three years as illegal migrant border crossings surged to record levels.
The Vice President chose Douglas, Ariz., for her border speech, hoping to convince swing-state voters that she’s serious about reducing the flow of migrants. The visit represents a shift to Plan B after the failure of her first strategy, which was to dodge the issue. Her campaign spent the first weeks after she gained the nomination telling the press that President Biden had never named her “border czar.”
But residents in border towns like Douglas aren’t likely to forget how security has unraveled on her Administration’s watch. More than 10 million migrants have been apprehended nationwide during the Biden Presidency, with a peak of 3.2 million last fiscal year. That compares with about three million in total under President Trump.
Democrats blame the surge on problems the White House had little power to fix, like the worldwide spread of Covid and disarray in countries such as Venezuela and Haiti. But Biden-Harris policies kept the border valve open while those forces built pressure.
The Administration signaled its openness to migrants in its first week when President Biden said he’d cancel Title 42, a policy Mr. Trump used to expel border crossers before they could claim asylum. The next month Mr. Biden moved to end Remain in Mexico, another Trump practice that kept migrants south of the border while they awaited legal entry.
The pace of migration rose again last year when Title 42 was finally ended after years of litigation, and the Administration had failed for two years to enact another deterrent. There was plenty of tough talk; Ms. Harris told Guatemalans “do not come” in 2021, and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas said “the border is closed.” Yet Mr. Mayorkas backed away from several policy restrictions, such as requiring all migrants to seek asylum in countries they cross en route to the U.S.
Ms. Harris now says all this is moot because Mr. Trump and Congressional Republicans shot down a bill that would have boosted border security. The plan, which collapsed in February, included a higher standard for asylum claims, and would have halted claims once crossings surpassed a weekly average of 5,000 a day.
The bill would have helped at the margin, assuming the Administration had enforced it—and doubts about the latter were part of the political rub. Since the spring, the Administration has required migrants to claim asylum only at ports of entry, and border crossings have fallen sharply. The President had this authority all along but was unwilling to use it for fear of offending his party’s left wing.
This record of failure has been especially frustrating for anyone who favors generous legal immigration, as we do. The surge of migrants and its spread of fiscal, housing and law enforcement woes has soured public support.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement told Texas Rep. Tony Gonzales this week that, as of July 21, “there were 662,566 noncitizens with criminal histories on ICE’s national docket,” detained and non-detained. This plays into the hands of border restrictionists.
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Ms. Harris says it’s possible to have both border security and a humane immigration system. That’s true, but that requires an Administration willing to enforce the rules. President Biden hasn’t.
Ms. Harris says she will, and we’d like to believe it. But even after the last three years, she refuses to call the Biden policies a failure. If she won’t admit that now to win over swing voters, why would she risk the left’s wrath once she’s elected? It takes a great leap of political faith to believe she won’t revert to Biden form.
You are nothing more than a Republican detractor.
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Re: Who is supporting the immigrant caravan?
Nope...wrong...people began to blame her and her boss for failing for 3 and a half years to do their job. The only thing they did was rollback Trump's EO. Now that their failure is coming back to bite them in the ass are they now singing a different tune.Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 9:52 amSoon after Mr. Biden's announcement, Republicans sought to blame Harris for the Biden administration's woes at the U.S.-Mexico border, where American officials have reported record levels of illegal crossings in the past three years. In a phone conversation with CBS News on Saturday, former President Donald Trump said Harris presided over the "worst border ever" as "border czar," a title her Republican detractors often give her.tech37 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 9:12 amThen why ask?Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 9:10 amCan you post her responsibilities as Border Czar? Should be easy to find.tech37 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 8:45 amExcellent evaluation by wsj. Thanks for posting.old salt wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 12:02 am Kamala's detailed speech on immigration begs the question -- what has the Border Czar been doing for the past 3+ years ?https://www.wsj.com/opinion/kamala-harr ... _now_opn_1
Harris Spins a New Border Tale
Blaming the surge on Republicans evades years of failed policies.
by The Editorial Board, Sept. 27, 2024
The U.S.-Mexico border on Friday was the latest stop on Kamala Harris’s reinvention tour, and defending her record there will take more than a smile and shifting blame. She criticized Donald Trump and Republicans for rejecting a bipartisan Senate deal, as we did at the time. But as usual she blew past the steps that she and President Biden failed to take for more than three years as illegal migrant border crossings surged to record levels.
The Vice President chose Douglas, Ariz., for her border speech, hoping to convince swing-state voters that she’s serious about reducing the flow of migrants. The visit represents a shift to Plan B after the failure of her first strategy, which was to dodge the issue. Her campaign spent the first weeks after she gained the nomination telling the press that President Biden had never named her “border czar.”
But residents in border towns like Douglas aren’t likely to forget how security has unraveled on her Administration’s watch. More than 10 million migrants have been apprehended nationwide during the Biden Presidency, with a peak of 3.2 million last fiscal year. That compares with about three million in total under President Trump.
Democrats blame the surge on problems the White House had little power to fix, like the worldwide spread of Covid and disarray in countries such as Venezuela and Haiti. But Biden-Harris policies kept the border valve open while those forces built pressure.
The Administration signaled its openness to migrants in its first week when President Biden said he’d cancel Title 42, a policy Mr. Trump used to expel border crossers before they could claim asylum. The next month Mr. Biden moved to end Remain in Mexico, another Trump practice that kept migrants south of the border while they awaited legal entry.
The pace of migration rose again last year when Title 42 was finally ended after years of litigation, and the Administration had failed for two years to enact another deterrent. There was plenty of tough talk; Ms. Harris told Guatemalans “do not come” in 2021, and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas said “the border is closed.” Yet Mr. Mayorkas backed away from several policy restrictions, such as requiring all migrants to seek asylum in countries they cross en route to the U.S.
Ms. Harris now says all this is moot because Mr. Trump and Congressional Republicans shot down a bill that would have boosted border security. The plan, which collapsed in February, included a higher standard for asylum claims, and would have halted claims once crossings surpassed a weekly average of 5,000 a day.
The bill would have helped at the margin, assuming the Administration had enforced it—and doubts about the latter were part of the political rub. Since the spring, the Administration has required migrants to claim asylum only at ports of entry, and border crossings have fallen sharply. The President had this authority all along but was unwilling to use it for fear of offending his party’s left wing.
This record of failure has been especially frustrating for anyone who favors generous legal immigration, as we do. The surge of migrants and its spread of fiscal, housing and law enforcement woes has soured public support.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement told Texas Rep. Tony Gonzales this week that, as of July 21, “there were 662,566 noncitizens with criminal histories on ICE’s national docket,” detained and non-detained. This plays into the hands of border restrictionists.
***
Ms. Harris says it’s possible to have both border security and a humane immigration system. That’s true, but that requires an Administration willing to enforce the rules. President Biden hasn’t.
Ms. Harris says she will, and we’d like to believe it. But even after the last three years, she refuses to call the Biden policies a failure. If she won’t admit that now to win over swing voters, why would she risk the left’s wrath once she’s elected? It takes a great leap of political faith to believe she won’t revert to Biden form.
You are nothing more than a Republican detractor.
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Re: Who is supporting the immigrant caravan?
A little American history might be in order here - we currently have a low end labor shortage and our current birthrate is not currently able to support continued economic growth - for the past 250 years this country has used immigration to deal with this situation to great effect - first in the mid 18th Century and again in the late 19th and early/mid 20th Century. In the 1920s, a political nativist faction managed to limit immigration by demonizing those from Eastern and South Europe and the Far East (sound familiar?) - this movement led to isolationist policies and ultimately to the complete failure of dealing with refugees who were being systemically murdered by the Nazis in the late 20s and early 30s and we ended up in a world war against those regimes.
This failure was finally addressed after WWII and it forms the basis of current asylum laws which are currently being used by migrants and smugglers at the southern border. It's time to fix this to reflect current realities. We are not the only Western country dealing with unfettered migration - Europe has similar issues/challenges .
If our elected officials (both sides) were smart or actually gave a sh*t about the country - they would amend the asylum laws, expand legal immigration and provide work visas for those looking for work and a future (as we did those many times in our past history). Simply give them green cards and have them work and pay taxes and, at some point, apply for citizenship. Clean up the backlog of asylum requests and deport those who don't qualify.
Age old rule om immigration - If you don't have some kind of order you end up with prejudice.
Sadly, we won't do this and, at some point, we'll all regret it as history repeats itself yet again.
This failure was finally addressed after WWII and it forms the basis of current asylum laws which are currently being used by migrants and smugglers at the southern border. It's time to fix this to reflect current realities. We are not the only Western country dealing with unfettered migration - Europe has similar issues/challenges .
If our elected officials (both sides) were smart or actually gave a sh*t about the country - they would amend the asylum laws, expand legal immigration and provide work visas for those looking for work and a future (as we did those many times in our past history). Simply give them green cards and have them work and pay taxes and, at some point, apply for citizenship. Clean up the backlog of asylum requests and deport those who don't qualify.
Age old rule om immigration - If you don't have some kind of order you end up with prejudice.
Sadly, we won't do this and, at some point, we'll all regret it as history repeats itself yet again.
Re: Who is supporting the immigrant caravan?
The forum has a few history illiterates.cradleandshoot wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 10:20 amNope...wrong...people began to blame her and her boss for failing for 3 and a half years to do their job. The only thing they did was rollback Trump's EO. Now that their failure is coming back to bite them in the ass are they now singing a different tune.Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 9:52 amSoon after Mr. Biden's announcement, Republicans sought to blame Harris for the Biden administration's woes at the U.S.-Mexico border, where American officials have reported record levels of illegal crossings in the past three years. In a phone conversation with CBS News on Saturday, former President Donald Trump said Harris presided over the "worst border ever" as "border czar," a title her Republican detractors often give her.tech37 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 9:12 amThen why ask?Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 9:10 amCan you post her responsibilities as Border Czar? Should be easy to find.tech37 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 8:45 amExcellent evaluation by wsj. Thanks for posting.old salt wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 12:02 am Kamala's detailed speech on immigration begs the question -- what has the Border Czar been doing for the past 3+ years ?https://www.wsj.com/opinion/kamala-harr ... _now_opn_1
Harris Spins a New Border Tale
Blaming the surge on Republicans evades years of failed policies.
by The Editorial Board, Sept. 27, 2024
The U.S.-Mexico border on Friday was the latest stop on Kamala Harris’s reinvention tour, and defending her record there will take more than a smile and shifting blame. She criticized Donald Trump and Republicans for rejecting a bipartisan Senate deal, as we did at the time. But as usual she blew past the steps that she and President Biden failed to take for more than three years as illegal migrant border crossings surged to record levels.
The Vice President chose Douglas, Ariz., for her border speech, hoping to convince swing-state voters that she’s serious about reducing the flow of migrants. The visit represents a shift to Plan B after the failure of her first strategy, which was to dodge the issue. Her campaign spent the first weeks after she gained the nomination telling the press that President Biden had never named her “border czar.”
But residents in border towns like Douglas aren’t likely to forget how security has unraveled on her Administration’s watch. More than 10 million migrants have been apprehended nationwide during the Biden Presidency, with a peak of 3.2 million last fiscal year. That compares with about three million in total under President Trump.
Democrats blame the surge on problems the White House had little power to fix, like the worldwide spread of Covid and disarray in countries such as Venezuela and Haiti. But Biden-Harris policies kept the border valve open while those forces built pressure.
The Administration signaled its openness to migrants in its first week when President Biden said he’d cancel Title 42, a policy Mr. Trump used to expel border crossers before they could claim asylum. The next month Mr. Biden moved to end Remain in Mexico, another Trump practice that kept migrants south of the border while they awaited legal entry.
The pace of migration rose again last year when Title 42 was finally ended after years of litigation, and the Administration had failed for two years to enact another deterrent. There was plenty of tough talk; Ms. Harris told Guatemalans “do not come” in 2021, and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas said “the border is closed.” Yet Mr. Mayorkas backed away from several policy restrictions, such as requiring all migrants to seek asylum in countries they cross en route to the U.S.
Ms. Harris now says all this is moot because Mr. Trump and Congressional Republicans shot down a bill that would have boosted border security. The plan, which collapsed in February, included a higher standard for asylum claims, and would have halted claims once crossings surpassed a weekly average of 5,000 a day.
The bill would have helped at the margin, assuming the Administration had enforced it—and doubts about the latter were part of the political rub. Since the spring, the Administration has required migrants to claim asylum only at ports of entry, and border crossings have fallen sharply. The President had this authority all along but was unwilling to use it for fear of offending his party’s left wing.
This record of failure has been especially frustrating for anyone who favors generous legal immigration, as we do. The surge of migrants and its spread of fiscal, housing and law enforcement woes has soured public support.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement told Texas Rep. Tony Gonzales this week that, as of July 21, “there were 662,566 noncitizens with criminal histories on ICE’s national docket,” detained and non-detained. This plays into the hands of border restrictionists.
***
Ms. Harris says it’s possible to have both border security and a humane immigration system. That’s true, but that requires an Administration willing to enforce the rules. President Biden hasn’t.
Ms. Harris says she will, and we’d like to believe it. But even after the last three years, she refuses to call the Biden policies a failure. If she won’t admit that now to win over swing voters, why would she risk the left’s wrath once she’s elected? It takes a great leap of political faith to believe she won’t revert to Biden form.
You are nothing more than a Republican detractor.
Re: Who is supporting the immigrant caravan?
The forum has a few history illiterates.cradleandshoot wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 10:20 amNope...wrong...people began to blame her and her boss for failing for 3 and a half years to do their job. The only thing they did was rollback Trump's EO. Now that their failure is coming back to bite them in the ass are they now singing a different tune.Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 9:52 amSoon after Mr. Biden's announcement, Republicans sought to blame Harris for the Biden administration's woes at the U.S.-Mexico border, where American officials have reported record levels of illegal crossings in the past three years. In a phone conversation with CBS News on Saturday, former President Donald Trump said Harris presided over the "worst border ever" as "border czar," a title her Republican detractors often give her.tech37 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 9:12 amThen why ask?Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 9:10 amCan you post her responsibilities as Border Czar? Should be easy to find.tech37 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 8:45 amExcellent evaluation by wsj. Thanks for posting.old salt wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 12:02 am Kamala's detailed speech on immigration begs the question -- what has the Border Czar been doing for the past 3+ years ?https://www.wsj.com/opinion/kamala-harr ... _now_opn_1
Harris Spins a New Border Tale
Blaming the surge on Republicans evades years of failed policies.
by The Editorial Board, Sept. 27, 2024
The U.S.-Mexico border on Friday was the latest stop on Kamala Harris’s reinvention tour, and defending her record there will take more than a smile and shifting blame. She criticized Donald Trump and Republicans for rejecting a bipartisan Senate deal, as we did at the time. But as usual she blew past the steps that she and President Biden failed to take for more than three years as illegal migrant border crossings surged to record levels.
The Vice President chose Douglas, Ariz., for her border speech, hoping to convince swing-state voters that she’s serious about reducing the flow of migrants. The visit represents a shift to Plan B after the failure of her first strategy, which was to dodge the issue. Her campaign spent the first weeks after she gained the nomination telling the press that President Biden had never named her “border czar.”
But residents in border towns like Douglas aren’t likely to forget how security has unraveled on her Administration’s watch. More than 10 million migrants have been apprehended nationwide during the Biden Presidency, with a peak of 3.2 million last fiscal year. That compares with about three million in total under President Trump.
Democrats blame the surge on problems the White House had little power to fix, like the worldwide spread of Covid and disarray in countries such as Venezuela and Haiti. But Biden-Harris policies kept the border valve open while those forces built pressure.
The Administration signaled its openness to migrants in its first week when President Biden said he’d cancel Title 42, a policy Mr. Trump used to expel border crossers before they could claim asylum. The next month Mr. Biden moved to end Remain in Mexico, another Trump practice that kept migrants south of the border while they awaited legal entry.
The pace of migration rose again last year when Title 42 was finally ended after years of litigation, and the Administration had failed for two years to enact another deterrent. There was plenty of tough talk; Ms. Harris told Guatemalans “do not come” in 2021, and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas said “the border is closed.” Yet Mr. Mayorkas backed away from several policy restrictions, such as requiring all migrants to seek asylum in countries they cross en route to the U.S.
Ms. Harris now says all this is moot because Mr. Trump and Congressional Republicans shot down a bill that would have boosted border security. The plan, which collapsed in February, included a higher standard for asylum claims, and would have halted claims once crossings surpassed a weekly average of 5,000 a day.
The bill would have helped at the margin, assuming the Administration had enforced it—and doubts about the latter were part of the political rub. Since the spring, the Administration has required migrants to claim asylum only at ports of entry, and border crossings have fallen sharply. The President had this authority all along but was unwilling to use it for fear of offending his party’s left wing.
This record of failure has been especially frustrating for anyone who favors generous legal immigration, as we do. The surge of migrants and its spread of fiscal, housing and law enforcement woes has soured public support.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement told Texas Rep. Tony Gonzales this week that, as of July 21, “there were 662,566 noncitizens with criminal histories on ICE’s national docket,” detained and non-detained. This plays into the hands of border restrictionists.
***
Ms. Harris says it’s possible to have both border security and a humane immigration system. That’s true, but that requires an Administration willing to enforce the rules. President Biden hasn’t.
Ms. Harris says she will, and we’d like to believe it. But even after the last three years, she refuses to call the Biden policies a failure. If she won’t admit that now to win over swing voters, why would she risk the left’s wrath once she’s elected? It takes a great leap of political faith to believe she won’t revert to Biden form.
You are nothing more than a Republican detractor.
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Re: Who is supporting the immigrant caravan?
tech37 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 10:09 amand... "you sound stupid"Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 9:52 amSoon after Mr. Biden's announcement, Republicans sought to blame Harris for the Biden administration's woes at the U.S.-Mexico border, where American officials have reported record levels of illegal crossings in the past three years. In a phone conversation with CBS News on Saturday, former President Donald Trump said Harris presided over the "worst border ever" as "border czar," a title her Republican detractors often give her.tech37 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 9:12 amThen why ask?Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 9:10 amCan you post her responsibilities as Border Czar? Should be easy to find.tech37 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 8:45 amExcellent evaluation by wsj. Thanks for posting.old salt wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 12:02 am Kamala's detailed speech on immigration begs the question -- what has the Border Czar been doing for the past 3+ years ?https://www.wsj.com/opinion/kamala-harr ... _now_opn_1
Harris Spins a New Border Tale
Blaming the surge on Republicans evades years of failed policies.
by The Editorial Board, Sept. 27, 2024
The U.S.-Mexico border on Friday was the latest stop on Kamala Harris’s reinvention tour, and defending her record there will take more than a smile and shifting blame. She criticized Donald Trump and Republicans for rejecting a bipartisan Senate deal, as we did at the time. But as usual she blew past the steps that she and President Biden failed to take for more than three years as illegal migrant border crossings surged to record levels.
The Vice President chose Douglas, Ariz., for her border speech, hoping to convince swing-state voters that she’s serious about reducing the flow of migrants. The visit represents a shift to Plan B after the failure of her first strategy, which was to dodge the issue. Her campaign spent the first weeks after she gained the nomination telling the press that President Biden had never named her “border czar.”
But residents in border towns like Douglas aren’t likely to forget how security has unraveled on her Administration’s watch. More than 10 million migrants have been apprehended nationwide during the Biden Presidency, with a peak of 3.2 million last fiscal year. That compares with about three million in total under President Trump.
Democrats blame the surge on problems the White House had little power to fix, like the worldwide spread of Covid and disarray in countries such as Venezuela and Haiti. But Biden-Harris policies kept the border valve open while those forces built pressure.
The Administration signaled its openness to migrants in its first week when President Biden said he’d cancel Title 42, a policy Mr. Trump used to expel border crossers before they could claim asylum. The next month Mr. Biden moved to end Remain in Mexico, another Trump practice that kept migrants south of the border while they awaited legal entry.
The pace of migration rose again last year when Title 42 was finally ended after years of litigation, and the Administration had failed for two years to enact another deterrent. There was plenty of tough talk; Ms. Harris told Guatemalans “do not come” in 2021, and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas said “the border is closed.” Yet Mr. Mayorkas backed away from several policy restrictions, such as requiring all migrants to seek asylum in countries they cross en route to the U.S.
Ms. Harris now says all this is moot because Mr. Trump and Congressional Republicans shot down a bill that would have boosted border security. The plan, which collapsed in February, included a higher standard for asylum claims, and would have halted claims once crossings surpassed a weekly average of 5,000 a day.
The bill would have helped at the margin, assuming the Administration had enforced it—and doubts about the latter were part of the political rub. Since the spring, the Administration has required migrants to claim asylum only at ports of entry, and border crossings have fallen sharply. The President had this authority all along but was unwilling to use it for fear of offending his party’s left wing.
This record of failure has been especially frustrating for anyone who favors generous legal immigration, as we do. The surge of migrants and its spread of fiscal, housing and law enforcement woes has soured public support.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement told Texas Rep. Tony Gonzales this week that, as of July 21, “there were 662,566 noncitizens with criminal histories on ICE’s national docket,” detained and non-detained. This plays into the hands of border restrictionists.
***
Ms. Harris says it’s possible to have both border security and a humane immigration system. That’s true, but that requires an Administration willing to enforce the rules. President Biden hasn’t.
Ms. Harris says she will, and we’d like to believe it. But even after the last three years, she refuses to call the Biden policies a failure. If she won’t admit that now to win over swing voters, why would she risk the left’s wrath once she’s elected? It takes a great leap of political faith to believe she won’t revert to Biden form.
You are nothing more than a Republican detractor.
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Re: Who is supporting the immigrant caravan?
https://twitter.com/RpsAgainstTrump/sta ... 2643978273tech37 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 8:45 amExcellent evaluation by wsj. Thanks for posting.old salt wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 12:02 am Kamala's detailed speech on immigration begs the question -- what has the Border Czar been doing for the past 3+ years ?https://www.wsj.com/opinion/kamala-harr ... _now_opn_1
Harris Spins a New Border Tale
Blaming the surge on Republicans evades years of failed policies.
by The Editorial Board, Sept. 27, 2024
The U.S.-Mexico border on Friday was the latest stop on Kamala Harris’s reinvention tour, and defending her record there will take more than a smile and shifting blame. She criticized Donald Trump and Republicans for rejecting a bipartisan Senate deal, as we did at the time. But as usual she blew past the steps that she and President Biden failed to take for more than three years as illegal migrant border crossings surged to record levels.
The Vice President chose Douglas, Ariz., for her border speech, hoping to convince swing-state voters that she’s serious about reducing the flow of migrants. The visit represents a shift to Plan B after the failure of her first strategy, which was to dodge the issue. Her campaign spent the first weeks after she gained the nomination telling the press that President Biden had never named her “border czar.”
But residents in border towns like Douglas aren’t likely to forget how security has unraveled on her Administration’s watch. More than 10 million migrants have been apprehended nationwide during the Biden Presidency, with a peak of 3.2 million last fiscal year. That compares with about three million in total under President Trump.
Democrats blame the surge on problems the White House had little power to fix, like the worldwide spread of Covid and disarray in countries such as Venezuela and Haiti. But Biden-Harris policies kept the border valve open while those forces built pressure.
The Administration signaled its openness to migrants in its first week when President Biden said he’d cancel Title 42, a policy Mr. Trump used to expel border crossers before they could claim asylum. The next month Mr. Biden moved to end Remain in Mexico, another Trump practice that kept migrants south of the border while they awaited legal entry.
The pace of migration rose again last year when Title 42 was finally ended after years of litigation, and the Administration had failed for two years to enact another deterrent. There was plenty of tough talk; Ms. Harris told Guatemalans “do not come” in 2021, and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas said “the border is closed.” Yet Mr. Mayorkas backed away from several policy restrictions, such as requiring all migrants to seek asylum in countries they cross en route to the U.S.
Ms. Harris now says all this is moot because Mr. Trump and Congressional Republicans shot down a bill that would have boosted border security. The plan, which collapsed in February, included a higher standard for asylum claims, and would have halted claims once crossings surpassed a weekly average of 5,000 a day.
The bill would have helped at the margin, assuming the Administration had enforced it—and doubts about the latter were part of the political rub. Since the spring, the Administration has required migrants to claim asylum only at ports of entry, and border crossings have fallen sharply. The President had this authority all along but was unwilling to use it for fear of offending his party’s left wing.
This record of failure has been especially frustrating for anyone who favors generous legal immigration, as we do. The surge of migrants and its spread of fiscal, housing and law enforcement woes has soured public support.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement told Texas Rep. Tony Gonzales this week that, as of July 21, “there were 662,566 noncitizens with criminal histories on ICE’s national docket,” detained and non-detained. This plays into the hands of border restrictionists.
***
Ms. Harris says it’s possible to have both border security and a humane immigration system. That’s true, but that requires an Administration willing to enforce the rules. President Biden hasn’t.
Ms. Harris says she will, and we’d like to believe it. But even after the last three years, she refuses to call the Biden policies a failure. If she won’t admit that now to win over swing voters, why would she risk the left’s wrath once she’s elected? It takes a great leap of political faith to believe she won’t revert to Biden form.
https://twitter.com/KamalaHQ/status/1839700597794025864
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/29/politics ... index.html
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Re: Who is supporting the immigrant caravan?
Interesting that there’s a refusal to actually answer the question about duties. Of course, that’s because she was never responsible for border policy in any way, but hey that’s not what right wing propaganda tells them.
So, why not just make the lies even more extreme?
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/29/politics ... index.html
So, why not just make the lies even more extreme?
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/29/politics ... index.html
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https://www.reuters.com/world/us/republ ... 024-07-30/
Border Czar is a Republican term applied to her. The VP of the USA is responsible for immigration. That’s a new one.
Border Czar is a Republican term applied to her. The VP of the USA is responsible for immigration. That’s a new one.
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Re: Who is supporting the immigrant caravan?
What the heck does this have to do with what I wrote.youthathletics wrote: ↑Sat Sep 28, 2024 9:19 pmHa!!! Every Trump EO was torn up before the bill was even considered. Wake up.a fan wrote: ↑Sat Sep 28, 2024 8:34 pmYou're ripping Biden for "letting" Trump kill the bipartisan bill??youthathletics wrote: ↑Sat Sep 28, 2024 8:21 pm Both POTUS' had a majority in their terms, and both signed no legislation. But one made it worse than the other, which is what we are fussing about now. Guess which one?
Dude, you can't help yourself, can you?
Let me end this conversation, since it's the same as every fake conversation you, tech, and OS have here:
Dems are bad. R's will make America perfect, Vote Trump.
There. I cut through hundreds of posts that all say the same thing.
Don't worry, Trump is coming in a matter of weeks. And when he arrives again, you, tech, and OS will be happy, and won't have a single thing to complain about Federally.
And like clockwork, if anything bad happens in America, you chaps will move your criticism away from Trump and the Federal Government, and find the closest Dem you can find at the State or local level, and tell us they're "doing it wrong".
Oh, and any problems overseas will be ignored, or blamed on anyone but Trump.
We've all seen this movie of yours dozens of times now.
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Re: Who is supporting the immigrant caravan?
Gee fellas, I wonder why these same exact posters never made one single comment about Mike Pence for four years about how he's "doing it wrong'. Isn't that a "weird coincidence" that Pence and every VP before him wasn't responsible for doodly?Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 12:17 pm https://www.reuters.com/world/us/republ ... 024-07-30/
Border Czar is a Republican term applied to her. The VP of the USA is responsible for immigration. That’s a new one.
How this all fits together in their minds is just....breathtaking.
I'm excited to see them tell us that VP Walz isn't responsible for anything at all in, oh, about five weeks.
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Re: Who is supporting the immigrant caravan?
Yep. The VP of the USA is responsible for border patrol, reform and enforcement. Nothing new. As the saying goes, Kamala has to be 2x as good to get half the credit. Pretty much the operating model for folk like her.a fan wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 12:22 pmGee fellas, I wonder why these same exact posters never made one single comment about Mike Pence for four years about how he's "doing it wrong'. Isn't that a "weird coincidence" that Pence and every VP before him wasn't responsible for doodly?Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 12:17 pm https://www.reuters.com/world/us/republ ... 024-07-30/
Border Czar is a Republican term applied to her. The VP of the USA is responsible for immigration. That’s a new one.
How this all fits together in their minds is just....breathtaking.
I'm excited to see them tell us that VP Walz isn't responsible for anything at all in, oh, about five weeks.
“I wish you would!”