Yesterday, without a lot of words....President Biden appointed VP Harris to head the border-crisis effort. The press wanted to ask questions but were shuffled out of the situation.
Harris? The crisis?
First, the entire crisis revolves around three key issues: (1) migrants believe the border is totally open and Biden won't shut it down to them crossing, (2) more than any point in the past fifty years, juvenile migrants are crossing....which the border patrol guys are marginally created to handle this type of situation, and (3) surrounding states of the border region don't want this issue to linger and get bigger.
Second, the resume of Harris for jobs like this? Non-existent. She's not a deals-person. She's never managed a crisis of sizeable proportion. And she does not have the means to say that the border will be upgraded and shutdown for illegal crossings. So, other than photo opportunities, and casual chats with the government of Mexico....I don't think much of anything will occur.
Third, and this is the blunt 'truth'....Harris has about 30 days to deal with this and get the numbers down. By May, warm weather will start up, and the current crossings will probably double.
Footnote: I read this morning some PhD guys studied things in Central America, and they say around 42-million residents want to cross the border. If this group number is true....Biden is probably looking at a five-star mess, and it'll burn through all of his 'must-do' lists. The mere suggestion that you might have 1.5-million migrants arrive in California over the next 18 months....should scare a fair number of people. Course....250k new migrant residents for Alabama might scare a few folks.
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