Border thread part II

What were they? Did she release a report or recommend some specific legislative action. If she released a report I’d like to read it. It would give insight into her thoughts on a very serious subject.
You recall there was broad agreement on legislation in Congress on immigration that would have passed if Trump had not pulled the plug on Republican support.

It is not like the US doesn't understand the Americas and the Caribbean. We have been meddling in their internal politics for more than a century with disasterous results in many cases.

It is important to note that there were 100's of thousands of jobs in the clothing industry in the US in the 1960's until most began moving off shore. Under a federally supported program many operations were moved into plants in Central America creating badly needed jobs. Of course the plug was eventually pulled on that support and the jobs headed to Bangledesh and points east.

My point is there is not a lot of new ideas on immigration. Some of the changes needed in our laws and funding to support it were largely contained in the joint bill.

With that background. How practical is it to expect that someone could come up with new innovative ideas to fix politics in Central/South America and Haiti in order to contain immigration.
 
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Biden asked Harris to tackle the 'root causes' of migration. Here's what happened after that.
Harris hasn't visited the border or the countries below it since early 2022. The White House says she has helped generate billions in job-creating investments in Central America.

A White House official defended Harris’ record and said her work is ongoing. “Vice President Harris continues to lead the effort to address the root causes of migration from Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador, including by generating more than $5.2 billion in investments into the region to give people economic opportunity at home. These investments are creating jobs and have connected more than 4.5 million people to the internet and brought more than 2.5 million people into the formal financial system.”

“Under the Vice President’s leadership, the Biden-Harris Administration continues to implement the Root Causes Strategy. As a part of this strategy, the Administration is on track to meet its commitment to provide $4 billion to the region over four years and continues to work to combat corruption, reduce violence, and empower women,” the White House official wrote.

Think tanks that study immigration and international non-governmental organizations have also questioned the impact of Harris’ work in addressing immigration.

“She had a very narrow mandate, which was to be the diplomatic representative in Central America at the time when most unauthorized immigration was coming from Central America,” said Andrew Selee, president of the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank based in Washington.

Since 2021, immigration from the Central American countries of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, once the leaders in illegal immigration across the southwest border, has fallen from 86,089 in March 2021 to 25,015 in June 2024, according to Customs and Border Protection data.
 
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Did you read the entire article. In the end the conclusion is she did basically nothing to help with anything and pretty much dropped it after 2021. This didn’t help your case at all. The people saying she helped was her policy director. Yikes.
 
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You recall there was broad agreement on legislation in Congress on immigration that would have passed if Trump had not pulled the plug on Republican support.

It is not like the US doesn't understand the Americas and the Caribbean. We have been meddling in their internal politics for more than a century with disasterous results in many cases.

It is important to note that there were 100's of thousands of jobs in the clothing industry in the US in the 1960's until most began moving off shore. Under a federally supported program many operations were moved into plants in Central America creating badly needed jobs. Of course the plug was eventually pulled on that support and the jobs headed to Bangledesh and points east.

My point is there is not a lot of new ideas on immigration. Some of the changes needed in our laws and funding to support it were largely contained in the joint bill.

With that background. How practical is it to expect that someone could come up with new innovative ideas to fix politics in Central/South America and Haiti in order to contain immigration.
So what you are saying is she doesn’t have the leadership chops to come up with anything?
 
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Did you read the entire article. In the end the conclusion is she did basically nothing to help with anything and pretty much dropped it after 2021. This didn’t help your case at all. The people saying she helped was her policy director. Yikes.

You always win and have to have the last word, so I'll give it to you.
 
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So what you are saying is she doesn’t have the leadership chops to come up with anything?
I’m not saying it I’m asking if that’s the case because of the results.
 
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Trump Attacks Kamala Harris for a Job She Never Even Had
Donald Trump and his allies are accusing Kamala Harris of doing a terrible job as the “border czar.”

Let’s dispel this myth that Harris had been put squarely in charge of the U.S.-Mexico border. While it is true that in 2021, the vice president was assigned to lead a limited effort to address the root causes of migration from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, Harris was not by any means in charge of the border.
 
You recall there was broad agreement on legislation in Congress on immigration that would have passed if Trump had not pulled the plug on Republican support.

It is not like the US doesn't understand the Americas and the Caribbean. We have been meddling in their internal politics for more than a century with disasterous results in many cases.

It is important to note that there were 100's of thousands of jobs in the clothing industry in the US in the 1960's until most began moving off shore. Under a federally supported program many operations were moved into plants in Central America creating badly needed jobs. Of course the plug was eventually pulled on that support and the jobs headed to Bangledesh and points east.

My point is there is not a lot of new ideas on immigration. Some of the changes needed in our laws and funding to support it were largely contained in the joint bill.

With that background. How practical is it to expect that someone could come up with new innovative ideas to fix politics in Central/South America and Haiti in order to contain immigration.
I know alot of women who lost those sowing factor jobs. And a lot of men who lost cotton mill jobs. Jobs that have never been replaced in small towns across south Alabama. Why on God's green earth would American politicians do that to their on people? It was a move to globalism at the American workers expense. That is the heart of Trumps make American great again movement.
 
this should be some good news for those folks then.

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and a lot of this investment is going into rural/exurban areas

This is just one example of a Republican state benefiting from the private investment boom set off by the IRA, a signature legislative achievement for President Joe Biden that every Republican in Congress voted against.
 
this should be some good news for those folks then.

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and a lot of this investment is going into rural/exurban areas

This is just one example of a Republican state benefiting from the private investment boom set off by the IRA, a signature legislative achievement for President Joe Biden that every Republican in Congress voted against.
Those jobs left a long time ago. This is in no way any help to that generation of workers. In the words of Obama, "never under estimate Joe Biden's ability to screw something up." I'll believe that helps when I see it.
 
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this is happening all over georgia (used to be a major textile manufacturing state) - a small sample of recent announcements:





 
You're quoting articles, I'm seeing reality in small towns in south Alabama. Jobs coming back to America is one of Trump's main platforms, so any companies that wish to open plants are appreciated and will continue under Trump. CNN articles really show a Biden bias don't they, wow.
 
this is happening all over georgia (used to be a major textile manufacturing state) - a small sample of recent announcements:





Having spent the vast majority of my working life in manufacturing the entire topic is interesting to me. It is unfortunate that most politicians have no knowledge of the topic or the manner that China and Japan waged war against the US for decades to create an unfair advantage to effectively steal American jobs. The Biden administration was the first ever to put US dollars behind efforts to build our semiconductor industry that is core to job creation. It will pay off for thousands of kids attending elementary school today. It is at least equal in its future impact to Eisenhower's Interstate program.

This compared to the vast transfer of wealth and jobs that has gone on due to trickle down economics.

That is enough said, I beleive to those who say that the orange menace would have done more for the economy than Biden.
 
I'm thrilled the semiconductor industry is beginning to build plants in America. Should of been here all along. I'm also glad for the jobs it will provide. Maybe Biden had something to do with, maybe not. Haven't read up on it. I will search conservative sources though, just don't trust liberal ones.
 
I'm thrilled the semiconductor industry is beginning to build plants in America. Should of been here all along. I'm also glad for the jobs it will provide. Maybe Biden had something to do with, maybe not. Haven't read up on it. I will search conservative sources though, just don't trust liberal ones.
I might be remembering incorrectly, but didn’t this involve monstrous amounts of subsidies? It also allowed a lot of Congress critters to make a tidy profit on the stock uptick that came after the announcement. Clearly, it worked out well for a lot of people.
 
So what you are saying is she doesn’t have the leadership chops to come up with anything?

I think he’s saying the same thing this Fox News anchor and Oklahoma Republican senator have said. There was a bill, but it got torpedoed because Trump wanted it gone.

If your position was that she wasn’t enough of a leader to override congressional republicans fear of what Trump would do to them, then at least say that. Couching it in a general “lack of leadership” argument is disingenuous at best.

 

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