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Harris had nothing to do with Panama closing it's borders.

I presented the exact link SHOWING all the nations in the LA Declaration and Panama indeed is one. The actions their new President took is consistent with what other nations are doing as well, all of them signees of the pact.

Perhaps you'd be better served providing links to things you post without substantiation. You have zero credibility, and you know it.

@#12 ... Deport Elon Musk. ...

While i am not there. Yet.

I do have to say, he seems to be an immigrant who is actively trying to destroy Democracy in the Country.

Musk Pours Money Into New York Races Critical to House GOP Win
www.yahoo.com

... Elon Musk's super political action committee is funneling $2.1 million to Republican candidates in battleground districts across the country, possibly helping the world's richest person build a bench of allies in Congress. ...

So... similar to Mr Thiel funding Sen Vance's Senate campaign?

Billionaires wanting to take over the Country?


@#6 ... over 33 bomb threats in springfield, ohio according to dewine. ...

Overseas threats hit the Ohio city where Trump and Vance lied ...
apnews.com

... Ohio stationed state police at Springfield schools Tuesday in response to a rash of bomb threats " the vast majority that officials said came from overseas "- after former President Donald Trump and his running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance falsely said ...

Schools, government buildings and elected officials' homes in Springfield were among the targets of more than 30 hoax threats made last week that forced evacuations and closures. Two more schools had to be evacuated on Monday, and the high school was threatened on Tuesday. Republican Gov. Mike DeWine said a foreign actor was largely responsible, but he declined to name the country.

Even with dozens of Ohio State Highway Patrol officers fanning out to protect the Springfield City School District's 18 schools, many parents opted to keep their children at home. At one elementary school, some 200 students were absent Tuesday out of a population of 500.

"There's still a high level of fear due to these unfounded threats and hoaxes that have marred our existence really for going on a week now," said Robert Hill, chief executive office of the Springfield City School District, appearing at a news conference with DeWine. ...


#5

Vice President Kamala Harris and Migration in the Americas: Setting the Record Straight

Read this and learn something, oh ignorant fool. Border crossings at currently at lows not seen since before Covid during the early part of the Trump error. Other nations are closing migrant avenues and sending them back to where they came from.

All due to an intelligent Administration seeking a hemisphere-wide agreement to based on addressing the root causes of migration and securing corporate investment in the countries where the migrants are coming from, providing them economic opportunity and growth within their own borders. It's called the LA Declarations.

Does it hurt to be so stupid, Robson?

These layered efforts to mitigate, manage, and order migration have, in recent months, led to fewer encounters between ports of entry at the U.S.-Mexico border than there were in 2019 during the comparable time period.

From 2014 to 2020, increases in irregular migration to the United States were driven primarily by displacement from the Northern Triangle countries; migration was again on the rise in early 2021 as countries came out of peak pandemic shutdowns. As a result, the Biden-Harris administration focused its initial efforts there. Saddled with deeply unreliable partner governments in all three countries, Vice President Harris chose to emphasize cooperation with civil society and the private sector through the creation of the Partnership for Central America (PCA).

Under the LA declaration, the Biden-Harris administration has secured unprecedented cooperation to curb irregular migration. Today, for example, Mexico is doing more to stem irregular migration to the United States than it has ever done before. The administration also created alternatives to irregular migration so that individuals fleeing Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela - the primary sources of instability in the hemisphere - could come to the United States in a sponsored, orderly fashion and be able to legally work shortly after arrival so as to contribute to U.S. prosperity and enhance stability in their home countries without delay.

Critically, the LA declaration built on successful migrant integration efforts in Latin America and spurred multiple countries to create new temporary legal status programs for migrants in order to stabilize these populations and to provide an alternative to migrating further. In May 2024, countries such as Ecuador, Colombia, and Costa Rica at the third ministerial meeting on the LA declaration announced regularization programs for various irregular migrant populations - building on the nearly 2 million Venezuelans who had already been provided status in Colombia alone. Today, more than 80 percent of those displaced in Latin America and the Caribbean have found a home in the region and have not proceeded to the U.S.-Mexico border.

If you don't know the reason Kamala Harris acted incredulous when questioned by dipskew Lester Holt as to whether she'd visited the Southern border, THIS is the reason why. She was never charged with going to the Southern border nor directly trying to secure it. That is the Director of Homeland Security's job, not hers.

What she was charged with doing has been an unquestioned success as the number of migrants showing up at our Southern border has slowed to numbers not seen since early in the Trump Administration, long before Covid accelerated migration. Here's the receipts and the direct evidence that the US has never had open borders and certainly doesn't have them now. There are no hoards of people trying to enter America at this moment, whether they be asylum seekers or simply people wanting to enter outside the system.

In fact, we're seeing the greatest multi-nation coordinated efforts to address migration comprehensively, even though the Republicans in Congress refuse to join the party in lieu of allowing Trump to demagogue that everyone thinks they know about illegal immigration that has already been successfully addressed due to the LA declarations.

Then, in July, Panama's new President Jose Raul Mulino took office and closed six of the seven border crossings from Colombia and increased patrols. ...

This is likely related to the work done by Kamala Harris when she was appointed by Biden to address the root causes of migration, NOT with securing our Southern border directly. That is the job of the Director of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas.

The current administration's focus evolved to leading a hemisphere-wide effort to mitigate, manage, and order migration through creating and adopting the landmark Los Angeles Declaration on Migration and Protection alongside 21 partners from across the region - notably the first time such a hemispheric-wide agreement directly involved the United States and Canada.

Under the LA declaration, the Biden-Harris administration has secured unprecedented cooperation to curb irregular migration. Today, for example, Mexico is doing more to stem irregular migration to the United States than it has ever done before.

Critically, the LA declaration built on successful migrant integration efforts in Latin America and spurred multiple countries to create new temporary legal status programs for migrants in order to stabilize these populations and to provide an alternative to migrating further. In May 2024, countries such as Ecuador, Colombia, and Costa Rica at the third ministerial meeting on the LA declaration announced regularization programs for various irregular migrant populations - building on the nearly 2 million Venezuelans who had already been provided status in Colombia alone. Today, more than 80 percent of those displaced in Latin America and the Caribbean have found a home in the region and have not proceeded to the U.S.-Mexico border.

So far in fiscal year 2024, compared with fiscal year 2021, there has been a 14 percent drop in the U.S. Customs and Border Protection average monthly encounters from Guatemala, a 39 percent drop from El Salvador, and a 50 percent drop from Honduras.

Combined with a recent executive order signed by President Biden related to asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border and the use of the statutory immigration parole authority to build new, lawful pathways, these layered efforts to mitigate, manage, and order migration have, in recent months, reduced encounters between ports of entry at the U.S.-Mexico border to below what they were during the same months in 2019.

Vice President Harris' work in northern Central America and the Biden-Harris administration's efforts through the LA declaration have set the United States up for precisely that kind of sustained order - but only if elected leaders turn away from weaponizing immigration and work on real solutions.

www.americanprogress.org

Until the search I just did a couple minutes ago, I'm today's day-old in ever hearing about the LA declaration. Democrats completely suck at even making Americans aware of what Biden and Harris have done which is directly responsible for the record drop of migrants showing up at our border over the last few months.

So the next time one of Trump's ignoranti jump into a discussion of "open borders," mark this thread and link for something to counter them. They won't believe it anyway, but it happens to be the truth.

"Spewing lies": Harris condemns Trump's "hateful rhetoric" about Springfield
www.axios.com

... Vice President Harris on Tuesday condemned former President Trump and Sen. JD Vance for their "hateful rhetoric" about Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, and said they are "spewing lies ... grounded in tropes."

Why it matters: Harris' remarks " during her second nationally televised interview as the Democratic nominee " are her most extensive yet on the unfounded GOP-driven conspiracy theory about Haitian immigrants eating pets in the Ohio town.

- - - "It's a crying shame. My heart breaks for this community," Harris said during a panel interview on Tuesday with the National Association of Black Journalists.

- - - "When you are bestowed with a microphone that big, there is a profound responsibility that comes with that," said Harris. ...



@#5 ... We like Canada. ...

I'd say it goes way beyond "we like Canada."

From my view, we have what I look at as the longest non-militarized border with our great neighbor to the north.

Among other things, we share critical mutual defense resources (can you say, "NORAD," I knew you could.)

I do not want that to change.


For example...

NORAD detects and tracks Russian aircraft operating in the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone (September 14, 2024)
www.norad.mil

... COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. " The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) detected and tracked two Russian IL-38 military aircraft operating in the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) on Sept. 15, 2024.

The Russian aircraft remained in international airspace and did not enter American or Canadian sovereign airspace. This Russian activity in the Alaska ADIZ occurs regularly and is not seen as a threat.

An ADIZ begins where sovereign airspace ends and is a defined stretch of international airspace that requires the ready identification of all aircraft in the interest of national security.

NORAD employs a layered defense network of satellites, ground-based and airborne radars and fighter aircraft to detect and track aircraft and inform appropriate actions. NORAD remains ready to employ a number of response options in defense of North America. ...



RT America
en.wikipedia.org

... RT America was a U.S.-based news channel headquartered in Washington, D.C. Owned by TV Novosti and operated by production company T&R Productions,[1] it was a part of the RT network, a global multilingual television news network based in Moscow and funded by the Russian government.[2][3][4] The channel said it reached an audience of 85 million people in the United States, but this figure is disputed.[5] It was distributed through select cable providers, over-the-top services, a live stream through its website, and three low-power digital subchannels.[6] Since the channel's closure, viewers who tune into the cable channel or their live stream are being shown a live feed of an RT International broadcast instead.[7]

Among the channel's shows at its closure were Dennis Miller + One with Dennis Miller, CrossTalk with Peter Lavelle and The Keiser Report with Max Keiser. Other shows included News with Ed Schultz (2016"2018) and Larry King Now (2012"2020). Additional personalities included Rick Sanchez, Stacy Herbert, Chris Hedges, Jesse Ventura, Sean Stone, Lee Camp, Mike Papantonio and Ben Swann.

Incidents centered upon RT America include Breaking the Set host Abby Martin's 2014 statement of her opposition to Russia's intervention in Ukraine,[8] which was followed the next day by anchor Liz Wahl's on-the-air resignation, which she issued on account of her belief that RT was a propaganda machine for President Vladimir Putin.[9] In 2017, David Z. Morris wrote in Fortune that, "according to a[n unnamed] social network analyst interviewed by The [New York] Times, RT is not simply a platform for a right-wing agenda. Rather, it fuels fringe viewpoints across the political spectrum, providing grist for libertarian, far-left, and anti-globalization factions as well."[10] James Kirchick wrote in The Washington Post that the channel was "not a 'news service' in any meaningful sense of the term".[11]

After losing the majority of its cable and satellite coverage following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the channel ceased operations of all live programming on March 3, 2022, with T&R Productions indicating the layoffs of all off- and on-air staff would be permanent.[12] ...


From about a week ago...

(video, with a transcript)

Critical report warns NASA is underfunded and its future is at risk
www.pbs.org

... NASA has big plans to send people to the Moon and Mars, but a sweeping new report from the National Academies of Sciences raises questions about the agency. Science Correspondent Miles O'Brien reports. ...



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