I think everyone knows there is no position called “Border Czar”. Hah, I remember some years back during the Bush administration where the Republicans did Czar this and Czar that, and wondered why they wanted to use such unamerican titles. Anyway, Biden did not make Kamala a *border czar” so Trump is, of course, lying about that.
Harris is also not dumb, although Trump may be for keeping this 2nd grade attack going. Trump’s Angry New Attack on “Dumb” Kamala Gets Wrecked by Leaked Data
The former president luridly claimed that Venezuelan gang members were “plotting to conduct ambush attacks” on American cops, then added: “All the while Harris and Biden sit in the White House and try to figure out who is dumber.” He proceeded to blame “Border Czar Harris” for a series of crimes by migrants, even though President Biden tasked her with addressing the root causes of Central American migration, while the Department of Homeland Security secures the border.
Unfortunately for Trump, unpublished DHS data shows that border encounters between ports of entry plummeted again to approximately 57,000 in July, according to an official familiar with the numbers. The data, which is preliminary until its official release in the coming days, was also leaked to CBS News and The New York Times. This is the fifth straight month of declining border crossings and the lowest monthly figure of the Biden administration. According to the Times, nine separate months during the Trump administration saw more border crossings than July under Biden did……
But there’s another reason for the dropping numbers: Mexico. As many immigration analysts have noted, Mexico has intensified its crackdown on migrants journeying north, bussing them back to the southernmost part of the country. That has served as a major impediment to migrants trying to journey from Central America to the U.S.-Mexico border.
Little is known about the precise role that Biden played in getting Mexico to institute this crackdown. But Andrew Selee, president of the Migration Policy Institute, says most analysts agree that Biden’s private diplomacy with Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador played a crucial part.
What’s more, the very fact that Trump and his allies sneeringly describe Harris’s role as “border czar”—when in fact her role has been a diplomatic one—illustrates Trump’s dumbness on this issue. As Jonathan Blitzer details in The New Yorker, Harris had some success in securing financial aid and investments to the Northern Triangle countries—which is designed to create opportunities in those places that mitigate the need to migrate—despite it being an extremely challenging task.
Why, as a Republican mayor, I support Kamala Harris over Trump
Significant reforms to immigration and border policies that would have addressed the crisis at our southern border were blocked by Trump because he didn’t want the problem solved. He wanted to exploit it for personal political gain.
Trump poses a serious threat to our nation. We can’t have a felon representing us on the national stage, let alone one who would threaten to abandon NATO and ruin our standing abroad.
We are in a moment that only happens once every few generations, when we have to defend democracy, and stand up for the right to vote and our civil rights. It is essential that we proceed in a manner that strengthens, rather than diminishes, public confidence in our democratic institutions.
What kind of country do we want to live in?
