https://www.yahoo.com/news/root-causes-immigration-talk-kamala-185821660.htmlAll This ‘Root Causes’ Immigration Talk by Kamala Harris Is a Cop-Out
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President George W. Bush was right: Immigrants from Mexico come here to do jobs that Americans won’t do. And refugees from Central America come here to escape violence, with a plan to reunite with family members who are already in the United States—doing jobs that Americans won’t do.
Harris is to the right of Bush. Think about this statement carefully. This is how far rightwards the centre has moved since 9/11.
With hundreds of thousands of would-be Central American refugees trying to enter the United States in search of asylum, the migration crisis is a headache for Democrats. They don’t have answers. All they have are competing factions: Latinos who want to make it easier for immigrants and refugees from Mexico and Central America to come north, and white working-class union members in the Rust Belt states who want to make it tougher.
Or, as I would put it, Americans vs Western occupiers.
In both political and humanitarian terms, the immigration crisis was already a hot mess. Now, thanks to Harris and her clumsy way of communicating, it’s hotter and messier.
And, as a bonus, Democrats now have a new problem on their hands: A lot of Latinos are pissed off—at Harris and Democrats.
To think, this hurricane was created by three little words uttered by Harris at a press conference in Guatemala City: “Do not come.”
That was the vice president’s harsh message to desperate Guatemalans—and, by extension, Hondurans and Salvadorans—who are thinking of giving up everything they own, leaving their families, and walking more than 1,000 miles to the U.S.-Mexico border to try their luck in the nation of second chances.
“I want to be clear to folks in the region who are thinking about making that dangerous trek to the United States-Mexico border,” she said while addressing reporters along with Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei. “Do not come. Do not come.”
And they’d be coming to roll the dice and seek asylum from a U.S. immigration system that, on average, awards that golden ticket to only about one in four people who ask for it. Most of all, these people would come because they put trust in the promise from the grand lady in New York Harbor who vows to take in “your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore.”
Frankly, that is where this Mexican-American gets pissed off. I shouldn’t have to explain all this to Kamala Harris, of all people. I shouldn’t have to make the case for inclusion and tolerance to the first Black vice president of the United States, or explain why America needs immigrants and refugees to a politician who was packaged and sold to the American people as “the daughter of immigrants.”
My mother was born in Texas, and my father was born in California; Harris’ mother was born in India, and her father was born in Jamaica. And I have a better handle on this stuff than she does?
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In the spirit of the Las Vegas tourism department, the administration hopes that, with a sizable enough investment, we can get to the point where what happens in Central America will stay in Central America. So the Biden administration wants to save the region, but it has no interest in saving the people who live in the region? It’ll take on the challenge of nation building in Central America, but it won’t take in any more Central Americans? What a joke.
After telling the people of Central America not to come to the United States, Harris followed up with this:
“We will discourage illegal migration,” she said. “The United States will continue to enforce our laws and secure our border… If you come to our border, I believe you will be turned back.”
Slow your roll, Madame Vice President. Who said anything about “illegal.” Or didn’t they teach you in law school that the process of seeking refugee status in the United States is 100 percent legal?
This **** has to be sorted out soon, because:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/climate-refugees/Fortunately, Harris appears to be susceptible to pressure:
https://vdare.com/posts/kamala-tells-spanish-language-interviewer-she-didn-t-really-mean-it-when-she-said-do-not-come-in-englishwhich is why we have to keep it up.