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Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Vice President Kamala Harris has supported bipartisan border security solutions and has demonstrated a long-standing commitment to working with regional partners to address the root causes of irregular migration. 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.

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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.

#1 | Posted by tonyroma at 2024-09-17 08:35 PM | Reply

Lawncare-Kamala is now tough on immigration.... and no tax on tips... Next thing you know she'll be handing out blue MAGA hats.

#2 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-09-19 01:27 PM | Reply

Lawncare-Kamala is now tough on immigration.... and no tax on tips... Next thing you know she'll be handing out blue MAGA hats.

#2 | Posted by lfthndthrds

And Republicans vote against securing the border and now Trump proposes capping credit card interest rates.

So you are an Open Borders Communist now?

Interesting.

#3 | Posted by Sycophant at 2024-09-19 04:18 PM | Reply

And Republicans vote against securing the border

#3 | Posted by Sycophant at 2024-09-19 04:18 PM | Reply | Flag:

Republicans voted against everything else in the bill. Quit being a dumbass, you know this.

bUh rEpUbLiCaNs ArE aGaiNsT IVF...

#4 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-09-19 04:46 PM | Reply

Republicans voted against everything else in the bill.

No they didn't you reprobate liar. Sen. Lankford authored the bill, one of the most conservative Senators in the GOP. The Republicans had no issues with the bill and said so.

"I followed the instructions of my conference who were insisting that we tackle this in October. It's actually our side that wanted to tackle the border issue. We started it," Sen. McConnell said. "Things have changed over the last four months."

www.nbcnews.com

Everyone with eyes and ears knows what happened "over the last four months": Donald Trump told his party members to reject the bipartisan bill.
The easiest explanation is that Republicans in both the House and Senate yielded to objections from their all-but-certain presidential nominee, former president Donald Trump.

Many Republicans are prepared to wait until 2025 to address border security. If Donald Trump defeats President Biden and reenters the Oval Office, they believe that they will get everything they want without enacting compromise legislation that would limit Trump's powers. In the meantime, they believe, the issue is damaging Biden, and they do not see why they should help him during an election year.

www.brookings.edu

Boom goes the dynamite and Leftturds just got blown to smithereens.

#5 | Posted by tonyroma at 2024-09-19 06:39 PM | Reply

#5 | Posted by tonyroma at 2024-09-19 06:39 PM | Reply | Flag:

There's enough gaslighting in that post to power an entire mid-sized city for a week.

#6 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-09-19 08:05 PM | Reply

Turds boy: Democrats are soft on immigration!

Also Turds boy: I'm glad Republicans voted down the bipartisan border legislation.

Go back to your trough Turd boy.

#7 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-09-19 08:11 PM | Reply

@#4 ... Republicans voted against everything else in the bill. Quit being a dumbass, you know this. ...

What are the "everything else" things that the Republicans voted against in the border bill written by a Republican?


#8 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-09-19 08:30 PM | Reply

There's enough gaslighting in that post to power an entire mid-sized city for a week.

Directly quoting people is Leftturd's idea of gaslighting.

Quelle surprise.

Lefthandturd just got blowed-up and his lying beak still hasn't realized it yet.

#9 | Posted by tonyroma at 2024-09-19 08:31 PM | Reply

@#5 ... No they didn't you reprobate liar. Sen. Lankford authored the bill, one of the most conservative Senators in the GOP. The Republicans had no issues with the bill and said so. ...

Exactly.

The GOP was in favor of the bill they wrote.

#10 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-09-19 08:31 PM | Reply

@#6 ... There's enough gaslighting in that post to power an entire mid-sized city for a week. ...

So, as seems to be the usual, your current has got nothing to substantiate what it posts.


#11 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-09-19 08:32 PM | Reply

@#9 ... Quelle surprise....

More curious to me is why did that current alias apparently see the need for an unsubstantiated deflection attempt on this thread?

What about the topic of this thread seemed to concern that alias to the point of trying to raise a deflection?


#12 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-09-19 08:35 PM | Reply

Go back to your trough Turd boy.

#7 | POSTED BY CLOWNSHACK AT

Go back to your turds. That's what you fish for.

#13 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-09-19 10:35 PM | Reply

@#12 ... More curious to me is why did that current alias apparently see the need for an unsubstantiated deflection attempt on this thread? ...

... and if I may add to my comment ...

There does seem to be an extraordinary effort (on so many levels) on the part of MAGA to deflect all discussions towards immigration.

I mean, visiting Springfield, OH, when that Mayor implies, "please stay away?"

Maybe because the Trump thinks that immigration is their only winning topic of discussion?


#14 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-09-19 10:52 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

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