Just for everyone's clarification, Kamala Harris wasn't the border czar... that's made up

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

+1

Just because Matt Gaetz says something doesn't make it true.

If the GOP can't tell the truth about the border, why should we trust them to shut it?

[Anonymous]

Interesting how the press is collectively just now coming out with stories saying Harris was not a border czar. Above, stories from NYT and LAT. Opening section on Google for Kamala Harris border czar features similar stories from Time and USA Today (both posted six hours ago).

The press has definitely received the message to pronto distant Harris from the Democrats' most problematic issue.

Stories from before the debate saying Harris was only asked to make a few phone calls about root causes would have a lot more credibility.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interesting how the press is collectively just now coming out with stories saying Harris was not a border czar. Above, stories from NYT and LAT. Opening section on Google for Kamala Harris border czar features similar stories from Time and USA Today (both posted six hours ago).

The press has definitely received the message to pronto distant Harris from the Democrats' most problematic issue.

Stories from before the debate saying Harris was only asked to make a few phone calls about root causes would have a lot more credibility.

Earlier this thread you can find the original White House announcement of what she was being appointed to do. Don't waste your time with the media, find out for yourself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interesting how the press is collectively just now coming out with stories saying Harris was not a border czar. Above, stories from NYT and LAT. Opening section on Google for Kamala Harris border czar features similar stories from Time and USA Today (both posted six hours ago).

The press has definitely received the message to pronto distant Harris from the Democrats' most problematic issue.

Stories from before the debate saying Harris was only asked to make a few phone calls about root causes would have a lot more credibility.

This is why you should read original sources, and not partisan news.

[Anonymous]

Absolutely creepy how the media comes together and sends out these “fact checks” and “reports” all in a coordinated effort to distance Kamala from the one assignment she had as VP, which she publically failed at.

I guess the media is back to working for the DNC again. I thought they had seen the light after being humiliated by Biden’s debate performance and his clear decline, but they just can’t help themselves.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting how the press is collectively just now coming out with stories saying Harris was not a border czar. Above, stories from NYT and LAT. Opening section on Google for Kamala Harris border czar features similar stories from Time and USA Today (both posted six hours ago).

The press has definitely received the message to pronto distant Harris from the Democrats' most problematic issue.

Stories from before the debate saying Harris was only asked to make a few phone calls about root causes would have a lot more credibility.

This is why you should read original sources, and not partisan news.

Yes but what’s wild about this is it’s the SAME news sources, just wildly changing their tune three years later in an attempt to boost Kamala, knowing the border issue is a weakness for her. But their original publications are still online so they can’t hide from their own words.

[Anonymous]

The thing is, it doesn’t matter if it’s true. It matters if voters believe it’s true. Just like with Biden’s alleged mental decline. There’s that Mark Twain quote about a lot making it around the world before the truth can pull on its pants, or something.

GOP does a very good job of keeping Democrats on the defensive. And as the other saying goes, if you’re explaining, you’ve already lost.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The thing is, it doesn’t matter if it’s true. It matters if voters believe it’s true. Just like with Biden’s alleged mental decline. There’s that Mark Twain quote about a lot making it around the world before the truth can pull on its pants, or something.

GOP does a very good job of keeping Democrats on the defensive. And as the other saying goes, if you’re explaining, you’ve already lost.

Well, now you know the truth, and so does everyone else in the thread. Spread the word!

[Anonymous]

Exactly.

95 percent of country already associate border catastrophe with Kamala. Doesn’t matter that someone here on DCUM is trying and failing to dispute her role.

[Anonymous]

Gee, it’s just so very confusing about where people got the idea that Kamala was tasked with the border!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gee, it’s just so very confusing about where people got the idea that Kamala was tasked with the border!!

I've yet to see any stories that say she was the border czar, and also, there's that White House text which explains what she actually was put in charge of.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is hilarious. A flurry of news “reports” over the last two days trying to rewrite history and suggest Kamala wasn’t tapped as a border czar. Do the Democrats think we can all be gaslighted on this like they did Biden’s health for the past few years!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/kamala-harris-says-a-pathway-to-citizenship-will-end-biden-s-border-crisis-vp-blames-republicans-for-immigration-problems-and-hope-new-package-includes-equities/ar-BB1h9uwr

Here’s Yahoo in 2021:
President Joe Biden on Wednesday appointed Vice President Kamala Harris to lead the White House’s efforts to combat the worsening crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border where governmental resources have been stretched thin by a surge of migrants entering the country.

Harris will work with Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras in an attempt to slow the influx of asylum seekers. U.S. Customs and Border Protection has said its agents encountered 100,000 migrants making illegal crossings in February, a 28 percent increase from the month before.

“I can think of nobody who is better qualified to do this,” Biden said, noting Harris’s prior work as California attorney general.

“When she speaks, she speaks for me, doesn’t have to check with me,” the president added. “She knows what she’s doing and I hope we can move this along.”

Democrats are desperate to re-write history.

Here is what the LA Times said about her actual job:


WASHINGTON — President Biden, facing a political crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border in the early days of his administration, tapped Vice President Kamala Harris to lead a high-profile response that would bet heavily on improving conditions in three Central American countries.
It was known as the “root causes” strategy. The border, administration officials argued, was only a symptom. If the United States could improve economic, security and political conditions in Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, fewer people would risk the perilous journey and much of the problem could be solved, they reasoned.

Three years later, the border crisis has only deepened, with record numbers of migrants from all over the hemisphere overwhelming the border, and a president on the defense as Republicans make immigration a key issue in his reelection campaign.

Specialists in migration say the administration miscalculated, choosing a narrow and time-consuming strategy that failed to anticipate the shifting nature of migration.

“It was focused on a long-term scenario and it was focused on countries that are no longer the primary sending countries,” said Ariel Ruiz Soto, a senior policy analyst with the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan research group.“

The three countries in Harris’ original portfolio showed significant drops in annual migration, from more than 700,000 border arrests in the 2021 budget year to fewer than 500,000 in 2023.

But they are back up again in the first three months of the 2024 budget year.

Mexico, meanwhile, is still the largest source of migrants, with 717,000 in 2023.

“You can’t have a ‘root causes’ strategy for every country in the Western Hemisphere,” said Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, policy director of the American Immigration Council, an immigrants’ rights group.

The administration’s struggle to follow the moving target is part of a decades-long pattern, said Ruiz Soto. Smugglers and migrants tend to adapt more quickly to dynamics on the ground than American policymakers, he said, noting that Venezuelans are now more likely to risk coming north than Guatemalans because there are fewer flights sending them back home.

“The U.S. immigration enforcement system is a reactionary one,” he said. “It responds to what’s happening the day of. It doesn’t look forward.”

Administration officials say that Harris should be judged on the pledges of $4.2 billion of private investments she has spurred and the approximately $1 billion a year in U.S. aid to the three countries in her portfolio. And they argue her high-profile task was only part of the plan to deal with the border crisis.





https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2024-02-05/kamala-harris-was-tapped-to-fix-an-immigration-crisis-but-the-target-has-moved

Super weird that the article you posted doesn't say she was the "Border Czar" but actually says the same thing the OP said. It's like... you didn't read it?

Give me a break. This isn’t about the wording of “czar” which is a common shorthand for when someone is tapped to lead something. This is about the role she was put into, which was to deal with the border crisis (see last sentence of the article above) and for which she failed abysmally. Backtracking now and suggesting it was all about the word czar and not the task she was asked to do is absurd.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gee, it’s just so very confusing about where people got the idea that Kamala was tasked with the border!!

I've yet to see any stories that say she was the border czar, and also, there's that White House text which explains what she actually was put in charge of.

You’ve seen plenty of links showing she wasn’t simply tasked with ralllying support of our allies in the southern countries. She was also tasked with affecting immigrant flow.

You aren’t fooling anyone here.

If you think this woman is accomplished, then show us her record of making a positive change on the border issue. Don’t debate words like czar. It is insulting to the voter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is hilarious. A flurry of news “reports” over the last two days trying to rewrite history and suggest Kamala wasn’t tapped as a border czar. Do the Democrats think we can all be gaslighted on this like they did Biden’s health for the past few years!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/kamala-harris-says-a-pathway-to-citizenship-will-end-biden-s-border-crisis-vp-blames-republicans-for-immigration-problems-and-hope-new-package-includes-equities/ar-BB1h9uwr

Here’s Yahoo in 2021:
President Joe Biden on Wednesday appointed Vice President Kamala Harris to lead the White House’s efforts to combat the worsening crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border where governmental resources have been stretched thin by a surge of migrants entering the country.

Harris will work with Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras in an attempt to slow the influx of asylum seekers. U.S. Customs and Border Protection has said its agents encountered 100,000 migrants making illegal crossings in February, a 28 percent increase from the month before.

“I can think of nobody who is better qualified to do this,” Biden said, noting Harris’s prior work as California attorney general.

“When she speaks, she speaks for me, doesn’t have to check with me,” the president added. “She knows what she’s doing and I hope we can move this along.”

Democrats are desperate to re-write history.

Here is what the LA Times said about her actual job:


WASHINGTON — President Biden, facing a political crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border in the early days of his administration, tapped Vice President Kamala Harris to lead a high-profile response that would bet heavily on improving conditions in three Central American countries.
It was known as the “root causes” strategy. The border, administration officials argued, was only a symptom. If the United States could improve economic, security and political conditions in Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, fewer people would risk the perilous journey and much of the problem could be solved, they reasoned.

Three years later, the border crisis has only deepened, with record numbers of migrants from all over the hemisphere overwhelming the border, and a president on the defense as Republicans make immigration a key issue in his reelection campaign.

Specialists in migration say the administration miscalculated, choosing a narrow and time-consuming strategy that failed to anticipate the shifting nature of migration.

“It was focused on a long-term scenario and it was focused on countries that are no longer the primary sending countries,” said Ariel Ruiz Soto, a senior policy analyst with the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan research group.“

The three countries in Harris’ original portfolio showed significant drops in annual migration, from more than 700,000 border arrests in the 2021 budget year to fewer than 500,000 in 2023.

But they are back up again in the first three months of the 2024 budget year.

Mexico, meanwhile, is still the largest source of migrants, with 717,000 in 2023.

“You can’t have a ‘root causes’ strategy for every country in the Western Hemisphere,” said Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, policy director of the American Immigration Council, an immigrants’ rights group.

The administration’s struggle to follow the moving target is part of a decades-long pattern, said Ruiz Soto. Smugglers and migrants tend to adapt more quickly to dynamics on the ground than American policymakers, he said, noting that Venezuelans are now more likely to risk coming north than Guatemalans because there are fewer flights sending them back home.

“The U.S. immigration enforcement system is a reactionary one,” he said. “It responds to what’s happening the day of. It doesn’t look forward.”

Administration officials say that Harris should be judged on the pledges of $4.2 billion of private investments she has spurred and the approximately $1 billion a year in U.S. aid to the three countries in her portfolio. And they argue her high-profile task was only part of the plan to deal with the border crisis.





https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2024-02-05/kamala-harris-was-tapped-to-fix-an-immigration-crisis-but-the-target-has-moved

Super weird that the article you posted doesn't say she was the "Border Czar" but actually says the same thing the OP said. It's like... you didn't read it?

Give me a break. This isn’t about the wording of “czar” which is a common shorthand for when someone is tapped to lead something. This is about the role she was put into, which was to deal with the border crisis (see last sentence of the article above) and for which she failed abysmally. Backtracking now and suggesting it was all about the word czar and not the task she was asked to do is absurd.

Here's your last chance to understand, because it FEELS like you might not be here much longer... this is the description of what she was tasked with doing—a diplomatic mission to central America to see what the countries there were doing to make themselves less awful and lkely to send migrants:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/07/29/fact-sheet-strategy-to-address-the-root-causes-of-migration-in-central-america/

On February 2, 2021, President Biden signed an Executive Order that called for the development of a Root Causes Strategy.

"Since March, Vice President Kamala Harris has been leading the Administration’s diplomatic efforts to address the root causes of migration from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. She has worked with bilateral, multilateral, and private sector partners, as well as civil society leaders, to help people from the region find hope at home. This complements work done throughout the U.S. government over the last six months to learn lessons from prior efforts and to consult with a wide range of stakeholders to inform the development of this strategy."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gee, it’s just so very confusing about where people got the idea that Kamala was tasked with the border!!

I've yet to see any stories that say she was the border czar, and also, there's that White House text which explains what she actually was put in charge of.

You’ve seen plenty of links showing she wasn’t simply tasked with ralllying support of our allies in the southern countries. She was also tasked with affecting immigrant flow.

You aren’t fooling anyone here.

If you think this woman is accomplished, then show us her record of making a positive change on the border issue. Don’t debate words like czar. It is insulting to the voter.

I've seen no links saying she was given any control over anything but a diplomatic mission to communicate with central american countries. Find the White House text saying she had any more power than that, no more of these liberal media links.