Kamala Harris ignores border, focuses on mansion renovations
Kamala Harris, who is famous for her giggling, is suddenly frowning these days.
Reportedly, she's upset at the speed of vice presidential mansion renovations, and somehow being homeless at Blair House, is frustrated with 'living out of suitcases.'
According to her sometime shopping buddies over at CNN:
It has been more than two months since Kamala Harris was sworn in as vice president of the United States, a historic moment for the country, as Harris is the first woman and the first woman of color to hold the second highest office in the land. Yet, Harris -- along with her husband, Georgetown Law professor Douglas Emhoff -- is still, ostensibly, living out of suitcases, unable to move into the private residence reserved for the vice president because it's still undergoing renovations.
It's unclear why the renovations are taking so long, said one administration official, but it's a situation that has left Harris increasingly and understandably bothered, according to several people who spoke to CNN about her situation. "She is getting frustrated," said another administration official, noting with each passing day the desire to move in to her designated house -- a stately, turreted mansion two-and-a-half miles from the White House -- grows more intense.The second couple continues to live in temporary housing at Blair House, the President's official guest quarters, just across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House.
Vice President Kamala Harris is dodging a Wednesday request by President Joe Biden to bolster the enforcement of migration laws in Mexico and Latin American countries.
On March 24, in a televised statement, Biden directed Harris to get the Mexican and Central American governments to forcibly block poor migrants moving towards the United States. Biden said: “The Vice President … agreed to lead our diplomatic effort and work with those nations to accept returnees and enhance migration enforcement at their borders — at their borders.” [emphasis added]
Biden said that Harris would work with “the countries that need help in stemming the movement of so many folks, stemming the migration to our southern border,” and added that it was a “tough job.”
On Friday, Symone Sanders, Harris’s press secretary, redefined the request.
“The president asked the vice president to take on the diplomatic effort, with Mexico and countries in the northern triangle to address the root causes of migration,” she said. “There are many reasons that move these folks to make this dangerous journey.”
“This is an amazing dismissal by a vice president of her president in a very public fashion,” said Ken Cuccinelli, who served as deputy homeland security chief under President Donald Trump. “I cannot ever remember seeing this happen before.”
Kamala Harris Has No Scheduled Meetings on Border Crisis After Tasked by Joe Biden
Vice President Kamala Harris is leading the response to the crisis on the border despite not having any meetings scheduled to address the situation.
Harris, who President Joe Biden selected to lead the response, has “no immigration meetings or public events scheduled Monday, according to her diary released by the Office of the Vice President,” reported the New York Post. She also neglected to make media appearances over the weekend.
The administration said Friday, “The president asked the vice president to take on the diplomatic effort, with Mexico and countries in the northern triangle to address the root causes of migration.”
“This is not work that will be addressed overnight,” White House chief spokesperson Symone Sanders said. “This is a challenging situation, as you heard the vice president and president speak to but it’s diplomatic work that needs to be done and Vice President Harris is Looking forward to doing it.”
The void of urgency from Harris comes after Biden was asked Sunday what he thought of former President Trump’s future visit to the southern border.
Biden responded, “I don’t care” if Trump visits the border.
The administration’s lack of response contrasts with a visit by 18 GOP senators, who went to the southern border to inspect Biden’s detention facilities, wherein Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) accused the administration of increasing the gravity of the crisis by ending Trump’s successful border policies.
This is in “direct consequence of policy decisions by the Biden Administration to stop building the wall, to return to the catch and release, and to end the stay in Mexico policy,” Cruz summarized.
DHS Readies Welcome for 800,000 ‘Family Migrants’
President Joe Biden’s border agencies are preparing reception centers to help a huge inflow of perhaps 800,000 family migrants this year, along with a record inflow of unaccompanied children and a growing wave of single men, according to media reports.
The Washington Post reported March 28 that officials at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) expect:
… roughly 500,000 to 800,000 migrants to arrive as part of a family group during the 2021 fiscal year that ends in September, a quantity that would equal or exceed the record numbers who entered in 2019, according to government data reviewed by The Washington Post. Officials are now racing to find facilities to house these families ahead of their release, along with additional staff to process an increase in humanitarian and asylum claims.
The extra facilities are being used to provide legal advice and paperwork to help the migrants move permanently into Americans’ labor markets and housing markets.
The reports do not describe any steps the federal government is taking to deter, stop, or reduce the inflow. The inflow will generate billions of dollars in smuggling revenue for coyotes and for the drug-smuggling cartels that control access to the U.S. border — and plus many billions in extra revenue and profits for U.S. companies.
In fact, Biden’s deputies, including border chief Alejandro Mayorkas, have already dropped nearly all of President Donald Trump’s anti-migration policies. Those policies allowed officials to quickly fly nearly all migrants back to their home countries, often 2,000 miles distant.
Under Mayorkas, officials have quickly reduced the share of family migrants who are rejected under the Title 42 anti-coronavirus measure to under one-in-six per day. Trump’s appointees used the Title 42 rule to block nearly all migrants.
The Wall Street Journal reported March 26 that the number of children and teens delivered to the border for entry under the Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) doorway “will rise substantially for at least the next two months, according to internal projections.” According to the report:
The government estimates that about between 18,600 and 22,000 children could cross the border in April. For May, officials are estimating the figure could rise to roughly between 21,800 and 25,000.
Border Patrol officials have said they expect taking more than 16,000 children into custody this month, a record for any month at the border since at least 2010, according to government data. In February, the figure was about 9,300, up from 5,700 in January.
If just 20,000 young migrants per month use this UAC route, that would add 240,000 migrants to the year’s inflow.
On March 24, Breitbart News reported 130,000 additional migrants had sneaked across the border since October 1. That number is almost four times as many migrants as in 2020, when an estimated 69,000 migrants crossed illegally.
But these record numbers may wildly underestimate the number of foreigners who push their way through Biden’s and Mayorkas’ half-open doors.
Roughly 42 million people south of Texas want to migrate into the United States, said a March 24 warning from Jim Clifton, the chairman and CEO of the Gallup polling company.
Sen. Lindsey Graham admits an open secret in DC:
The US gov't (esp. Democrats) is '"complicit" in relaying coyote-delivered "unaccompanied" children to their illegal-migrant parents throughout the US.
And yes, the cartels get a share of the profits. https://t.co/OyQ77TdISc— Neil Munro (@NeilMunroDC) March 27, 2021
The share of families, UACs, and adults change in each year’s inflow.
This year, there is evidence more families are sending older children through the UAC door while the fathers and young men sneak over the wall until they can get transport to go north. Most media coverage treats the different streams as unconnected, but the migrants share a cellphone communications network that keeps them in close contact with each other, the coyotes, and their illegal-migrants families already living in the United States.
Mayorkas is a zealous proponent of the Cold War claim that the United States is a “Nation of Immigrants” and is encouraging the migrants by rewriting regulations and policies to widen small side doors in U.S immigration law.,
The law allows roughly 1 million legal immigrants per year, just as 4 million Americans turn 18. But Mayorkas is following the law as he welcomes a theoretically unlimited inflow of migrants via the side doors for asylum, UACs, parolees, and refugees.
Amid the inflow, Mayorkas has also disengaged the regulatory brakes on the inflow of young migrants. For example, he has told illegal migrants they need not fear arrest if they pay coyotes and cartels to deliver their children to government agencies for subsequent pickup. He has also rejected proposals to exclude older, job-seeking teenagers from the separate UAC migration process.
The pro-migration policies set by Mayorkas are reviving the “extraction migration” economic policy that was largely blocked in 2019 by President Trump.
The Mayorkas policy is pulling many migrants — old and young, work-ready or sick — out of Central American and into the U.S. economy, where they spur economic activity by serving as cheap workers, government-aided consumers, and high-occupancy renters.
Each additional poor migrant is an economic boon for U.S. employers and investors — but an economic loss for employers and taxpayers. For example, older migrants boost government healthcare spending, much to the advantage of healthcare companies. Child migrants increase K-12 education spending, much to the advantage of teachers and companies that sell school supplies. Adult migrants work, eat, buy things, and sleep, so creating additional revenue for employers, groceries, retailers, and renters.
The costs, however, are borne by working Americans and their children. Americans’ wages are pressured down, their workplace training and investment are diverted, their housing prices are pushed upwards, and their schools have to deal with many migrants who do not speak English or who prefer to get jobs.
These southern migrants tend to impact blue-collar Americans of all colors. However, U.S. graduates are damaged by the inflow of foreign white-collar workers via different side doors in the nation’s immigration laws.
The costs of migration are also imposed on people in migrant-sending countries. Many migrants are shamed and pressured into taking the dangerous trek northwards. The resulting loss of young people also minimizes pressure for political reform of the corrupt, authoritarian countries.