{"id":2315873,"date":"2024-07-30T07:59:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T11:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/yes-kamala-ran-bidens-disastrous-efforts-to-increase-migration\/"},"modified":"2024-07-30T08:07:07","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T12:07:07","slug":"yes-kamala-ran-bidens-disastrous-efforts-to-increase-migration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/yes-kamala-ran-bidens-disastrous-efforts-to-increase-migration\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, Kamala Ran Biden\u2019s Disastrous Efforts To Increase Migration"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fyes-kamala-ran-bidens-disastrous-efforts-to-increase-migration%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2315873&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The \u2064article critically examines Vice President Kamala Harris&#8217;s \u200crole in handling the U.S. immigration crisis, particularly regarding her leadership in addressing the &#8220;root causes&#8221; \u2064of \u2062mass migration from\u2063 Central\u2063 America. While Harris was never\u2063 officially dubbed &#8220;border czar,&#8221; the President appointed \u2064her to lead an initiative aimed at tackling the factors driving migration from the Northern Triangle countries: Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. The Biden administration&#8217;s\u200d strategy relied \u200bon nation-building to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-to-nominate-texas-sheriff-to-lead-ice\/\" title=\"Biden to Nominate Texas Sheriff to Lead ICE\">curb illegal immigration<\/a>, which it \u200dviewed as central to border management.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the intention behind this\u2062 approach, the article argues that it has been a significant failure, highlighted by a record number of\u2063 over 10 million \u2064crossings at the southern border within 36 months. It notes a pattern of increasing migrant apprehensions from the Northern Triangle during\u200b her\u2062 tenure, contrasting this with the administration&#8217;s \u2063promises of substantial financial aid aimed at improving conditions in \u2062those \u200dcountries.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the article\u200c implies that the root causes doctrine is a flawed strategy borrowed from Europe&#8217;s past failed immigration policies and questions the effectiveness of such an approach. It\u200c criticizes the media for failing to scrutinize the historical\u200d inadequacies of this method and for not holding Harris accountable \u2063for the crisis&#8217;s growth amid \u200bclaims of diplomatic engagement and\u2062 investments meant to alleviate the migration pressures. Ultimately, the piece underscores the\u2063 need for \u2063transparency and accountability regarding Harris&#8217;s contributions to the ongoing immigration challenges.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Okay, fine: Vice President Kamala Harris never held an official government title called &ldquo;border czar.&rdquo; But the <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.vn\/tktjO\">media fact checkers<\/a> and partisan fans who have zeroed in on separating her from that euphemistic title &mdash; as though this silly contest over rhetoric absolves her of responsibility for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-u-turn-on-illegal-immigration-will-last-only-until-election\/\" title=\"Biden&#039;s U-Turn On Illegal Immigration Will Last Only Until Election\">worst mass migration crisis<\/a> in American history &mdash; does not cut the anchor line. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The president of the United States assigned Harris to &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.vn\/Ve8Se\">lead the effort<\/a>&rdquo; of the administration&rsquo;s <em>signature <\/em>border security strategy, the main one he chose above all others, for ending mass illegal immigration over the southern border. That strategy was to alleviate the so-called &ldquo;root causes&rdquo;spurring outmigration from its most common sources &mdash; Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, also known as the Northern Triangle.<\/p>\n<p>The president and his top lieutenants regarded the root-causes doctrine &mdash; which calls for nation-building to induce aspiring emigrants to stay home instead &mdash; as central to his entire border-management strategy and found Harris a highly willing, eager root causes chief.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I look forward to engaging in diplomacy with government, with private sector, with civil society, and &hellip; the leaders of each in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras to strengthen democracy and the rule of law, and ensure shared prosperity in the region,&rdquo; Harris responded after her presidential appointment at a <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.vn\/Ve8Se\">March 24, 2021, press event<\/a> announcing her new role. <\/p>\n<p>A few months later, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/04\/09\/biden-border-czar-roberta-jacobson-stepping-down-amid-crisis\/\">reiterated that Harris would lead<\/a> a &ldquo;whole-of-government approach&rdquo; to &ldquo;lead the Administration&rsquo;s work on our efforts with Mexico and the Northern Triangle, a testament to the importance this administration places on improving conditions in the region.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<h2>Inalterable Numbers<\/h2>\n<p>Hard, inalterable facts also show that Harris&rsquo; leadership over the implementation of the U.S. root causes doctrine was as complete a failure as any in American history. It rightly saddles her and her boss with what happened to our country as a direct result &mdash; a record-smashing 10 million foreign nationals crossing the southern border in 36 months, because the top team let most of them in to stay.<\/p>\n<p>Before Covid, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/assets\/documents\/2020-Jan\/U.S.%20Border%20Patrol%20Nationwide%20Apprehensions%20by%20Citizenship%20and%20Sector%20%28FY2007%20-%20FY%202019%29_1.pdf\">fiscal year 2019<\/a>, U.S. Border Patrol apprehended a total of 609,775 Guatemalans, Hondurans, and Salvadorans crossing the border. By the end of Harris&rsquo; first year overseeing the root causes strategy in 2021, that number was 701,049. During the next two years of Harris overseeing the root causes doctrine, Border Patrol encountered another 1,036,904 such immigrants. <\/p>\n<p>So far this fiscal year through the end of June, Border Patrol has encountered another 347,911, which projects out to another more than half million by fiscal year&rsquo;s end on October 1. That&rsquo;s well more than 2 million more immigrants from the Northern Triangle during those four years.<\/p>\n<p>To somehow buy away bad conditions in source countries but never explaining how, when, or offering accountability benchmarking, the Biden administration pledged a $3 billion downpayment to Central America over four years, including $860.6 million in fiscal year 2022 and $986 million in fiscal year 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Harris showed no reluctance to downplay, hide, or diminish her role leading this essential administration strategy. In fact, she later held press conferences boasting of having coaxed some American companies to invest in Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador as a positive result of her personal leadership.<\/p>\n<h2>Borrowing a Failed Strategy from Europe<\/h2>\n<p>But failure was predictable from the start because root causes doctrine is a total ruse. The administration merely borrowed the idea from European leftists who&rsquo;d been failing at it for 40 years already. That&rsquo;s right.<\/p>\n<p>When the Biden campaign in 2020 first appropriated Europe&rsquo;s failed liberal social engineering experiment as its chief immigration policy, star-struck American media never bothered to dig into its long, sorry history or demand details for how much it would cost. No one asked when, exactly, the White House would consider Central America &ldquo;fixed&rdquo; enough to declare U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-biden-program-will-hide-numbers-of-illegals-entering-country\/\" title=\"New Biden Program Will Hide Numbers of Illegals Entering Country\">border security success<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now is the time to finally dig in as Harris gears up to take her boss&rsquo;s job. It&rsquo;s never too late to make up for earlier professional journalism failure.<\/p>\n<p>Campaign reporters should know that the most cursory glance at Europe&rsquo;s experience addressing &ldquo;root causes&rdquo; from the earliest 1980s pilot programs show the strategy never worked. For example, the European Union-funded policy think tank Mignex reviewed some 10 studies spanning more than a decade where development aid was invested to reduce Europe-bound emigration from poor countries.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In its current form, development aid does not seem to be big enough to create the underlying changes that affect migration decisions,&rdquo; the Mignex report concluded, in part. &ldquo;In cases where we do see a deterrent effect of aid on migration, a noticeable impact would require an unrealistic increase in aid.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Writing for the International Institute of Social Studies in 2007, social scientist Hein de Haas concluded that, &ldquo;Besides the limited scope and credibility of such policies, empirical and theoretical evidence strongly suggests that economic and human development increases people&rsquo;s capabilities and aspirations and therefore tends to coincide with an increase rather than a decrease in emigration.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Harris never once questioned the decision to carry on, not even when other factors started to gum up the whole idea of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/04\/14\/harris-hopeless-root-cause-prescription-for-the-border\/\">absurd root causes stratagem<\/a> for just the Northern Triangle countries. For instance, root causes proponents of rebuilding Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador do not take into account that more than 45 percent of everyone reaching the southern border during this crisis are not from those countries or Mexico but from 100-plus other wrecked countries such as Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.<\/p>\n<p>Are Americans expected to pay for eliminating the root causes of emigration from those nations too, or for those of <em>any <\/em>poor nation whose citizens decide to come here next? The political reporters and Harris fans all look away from this obvious question. Harris never offered any illumination while in charge of the three-country strategy.<\/p>\n<h2>Harris&rsquo;s Role<\/h2>\n<p>What Americans really need to know from their media is that the vice president and her acolytes always doubled down on selling the root-causes elixir no matter its poisonous ingredients. During an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/04\/14\/harris-hopeless-root-cause-prescription-for-the-border\/\">April 2021 state visit to Central America<\/a>, the border czar, or whatever else you want to call her, laid blame for the surge in illegal immigration on &ldquo;extensive storm damage because of extreme climate.&rdquo; She kept going with &ldquo;food scarcity&rdquo; as a result.<\/p>\n<p>Harris deserves to be held to account for knowing full well that the root-causes doctrine was really nothing more than tinsel to flitter around while opening the border. Progressive liberals know its true purpose is to serve not as a <em>complement<\/em> to American deportation, detention, and deterrence &mdash; which actually cause immigrants to stay home &mdash; but as <em>total replacement <\/em>for those policies. <\/p>\n<p>So, while taxpayer dollars somehow will rebuild three countries on no particular timeline (a dubious proposition), the Biden administration left the border gates open. The real solution meantime was hard at work with Harris at the helm.<\/p>\n<p>So whether you can call her &ldquo;border czar&rdquo; or just the person in charge of the administration&rsquo;s main policy approach to the border, Harris must still answer for her contribution to the worst border crisis in American history that she aided and abetted in office.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Todd Bensman is a Texas-based senior national security fellow for the Center for Immigration Studies, a Washington D.C.-based research institute, and a writing fellow for the Middle East Forum. His latest book is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toddbensman.com\/overrun-book\/\">&#8220;Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History&#8221;<\/a> (Bombardier Books). For nearly a decade, Bensman led counterterrorism-related intelligence efforts for the Texas Department of Public Safety&#8217;s Intelligence and Counterterrorism Division. Follow him on Twitter @BensmanTodd.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sure, here\u2019s a paraphrase of the provided text:<\/p>\n<p>While it&#8217;s true that Vice President Kamala Harris was never officially designated as &#8220;border czar,&#8221; the media and her supporters who focus on this title are missing the larger issue. This rhetorical debate does not absolve her of accountability for what has become the most significant mass migration crisis in U.S. history. The President tasked Harris with leading his administration&#8217;s primary border security initiative aimed at curbing illegal immigration from the southern border, which involved addressing the so-called &#8220;root causes&#8221; driving people to leave their home countries\u2014primarily Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.<\/p>\n<p>The administration viewed this root-causes approach as essential to its overall strategy for managing borders and found Harris enthusiastic about taking on this role. After her appointment on March 24, 2021, she expressed eagerness to engage in diplomatic efforts with leaders from these Central American nations to promote democracy and economic stability.<\/p>\n<p>However, hard data reveals that under her leadership in implementing this strategy, there has been a significant failure. The result has been an unprecedented influx of over 10 million foreign nationals crossing into the U.S., largely because many were allowed to stay. For instance, before COVID-19 in fiscal year 2019, Border Patrol apprehended around 609,775 individuals from these three countries; by 2021\u2014Harris&#8217;s first year overseeing this initiative\u2014that number rose to over 700,000.<\/p>\n<p>In totality during her tenure focusing on root causes over two years after that point saw another million encounters with immigrants from those regions alone. Projections indicate that by October of this fiscal year alone there could be more than half a million additional encounters.<\/p>\n<p>Despite pledging $3 billion over four years towards improving conditions in Central America\u2014including substantial amounts allocated for specific fiscal years\u2014Harris did not shy away from promoting her role or claiming success based on American investments she encouraged in those countries.<\/p>\n<p>The root-causes doctrine itself is criticized as ineffective; it was borrowed from European policies that have failed for decades without producing meaningful results regarding migration control. Despite evidence suggesting such strategies do not work effectively or require unrealistic funding increases for any impact at all\u2014Harris continued advocating them without questioning their efficacy even when faced with broader migration issues beyond just those originating from Northern Triangle nations.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, many migrants arriving at the southern border come not only from these three countries but also other troubled nations like Venezuela and Haiti\u2014a fact often overlooked by both political reporters and Harris herself during discussions about immigration policy.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately it is crucial for Americans to understand that regardless of whether one labels her as &#8220;border czar&#8221; or simply acknowledges her leadership role within immigration policy efforts\u2014the vice president must be held accountable for contributing significantly to what is now recognized as America&#8217;s worst border crisis ever experienced while serving in office<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":635,"featured_media":2315874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/4409575259_1749aab956_k-e1722280376872.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[32502,36382,32438,36626,33017],"class_list":["post-2315873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-biden-administration","tag-immigration-policy","tag-kamala-harris","tag-migration-crisis","tag-political-analysis"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/4409575259_1749aab956_k-e1722280376872.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/635"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2315873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2315873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2315873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2315873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}