Immigration Watch International (2): The Great ‘Border Czar’ Whitewash

Monday, July 29, 2024

The Great ‘Border Czar’ Whitewash

The amount of gaslighting that the Leftmedia is doing to elevate Vice President Kamala Harris in her new status as the likely presidential nominee of the Democrat Party is insane. The legacy media’s latest attempt at memory-holing is to assert that conservatives were the ones inaccurately labeling Harris the “border czar.”

It was the Leftmedia itself that first hailed her as such.

Before that, though, in March of 2021, President Joe Biden said, “I’ve asked her, the VP, today — because she’s the most qualified person to do it — to lead our efforts with Mexico and the Northern Triangle and the countries that … are going to need help in stemming the movement of so many folks, stemming the migration to our southern border.”

Kamala Harris was tapped to be in charge of overseeing the border and “stemming the migration to our southern border.” It was a job she completely failed at (though it’s obvious that the influx of illegals was the goal of this administration). Much to the chagrin of the Democrats and their media allies, immigration is the top issue for the majority of Americans this election.

Most Americans hate the open southern border. They despise the humanitarian crisis it has created. They abhor the sharp rise in crime that far too many illegals — often with gang associations — have inflicted on American citizens. Because Harris was asked “to lead our efforts” vis-à-vis illegal immigration, she should be paying for her abdication at the ballot box.

The panicking Leftmedia is now attempting to retcon this entire fiasco. This week, Axios reporter Stef W. Kight explained that Harris was never the “border czar” and that Republicans were pouncing. She stated, “In the past few days, the Trump campaign and Republicans have tagged Harris repeatedly with the ‘border czar’ title — which she never actually had.” Hilariously, Kight’s own previous reporting in 2021 directly contradicts her framing.

In a further attempt to circle the wagons, Axios added an editor’s note to Kight’s article defending Harris from her failures, uproariously stating, “This article has been updated and clarified to note that Axios was among the news outlets that incorrectly labeled Harris a ‘border czar’ in 2021.”

CNN is claiming that Harris’s job was never to be in charge of the border; her job was to combat “the roots of immigration.” This spin was echoed by other outlets like USA Today and TIME Magazine.

In 2021, interviewers like NBC News’s Lester Holt questioned the vice president on her work dealing with stemming the flow of migrants. Holt asked Harris when she was going to the border. Harris responded with a vague, "We’ve been to the border.” Holt fired back, “You haven’t been to the border.” Harris infamously replied, “And I haven’t been to Europe.”

No one but the extremely gullible or politically ignorant is fooled by this whitewashing attempt by the Leftmedia. In fact, the House of Representatives yesterday put forth a resolution to condemn the Biden administration and VP Harris for her failure as the “border czar.” The resolution passed with the help of six Democrats crossing party lines.

The media will continue to try to make Harris more appealing, but her policies are radical and anti-American at their core. Harris was also complicit in the cover-up of Biden’s failing mental acuity. That should be reason enough to scare off undecided voters.

If Harris is declared the official nominee at next month’s Democratic National Convention, it’s likely that the more America sees of her, the less they will like her.

https://patriotpost.us/articles/108813-the-great-border-czar-whitewash-2024-07-26

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Postings from Brisbane, Australia by John Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.) -- former member of the Australia-Soviet Friendship Society, former anarcho-capitalist and former member of the British Conservative party.

Why is "La Raza" the one Spanish term that is NEVER translated in the American mass media? Because translating it would make it a lot less respectable. It means "THE RACE" -- The mixed Hispanic "race" of Mexico. Racism is fine South of the Rio Grande only, apparently.

The "line" of this blog is that immigration should be SELECTIVE. That means that:

1). A national government should be in control of it. The U.S. and U.K. governments are not but the Australian government has shown that the government of a prosperous Western country can be. Up until its loss of office in 2007, the conservative Howard government had all but eliminated illegal immigration. The present Leftist government has however restarted the flow of illegals by repealing many of the Howard government regulations.

2). Selectivity should be based on "the content of a man's character, not on the color of his skin", as MLK said. To expand that a little: Immigrants should only be accepted if they as individuals seem likely to make a positive net contribution to the country. Many "refugees" would fail that test: Muslims and Africans particularly. Educational level should usually be a pretty fair proxy for the individual's likely value to the receiving country. There will, of course, be exceptions but it is nonetheless unlikely that a person who has not successfully completed High School will make a net positive contribution to a modern Western society.

3). Immigrants should be neither barred NOR ACCEPTED solely because they are of some particular ethnic origin. Blacks are vastly more likely to be criminal than are whites or Chinese, for instance, but some whites and some Chinese are criminal. It is the criminality that should matter, not the race.

4). The above ideas are not particularly blue-sky. They roughly describe the policies of the country where I live -- Australia. I am critical of Australian policy only insofar as the "refugee" category for admission is concerned. All governments have tended to admit as refugees many undesirables. It seems to me that more should be required of them before refugees are admitted -- for instance a higher level of education or a business background.

5). Perhaps the most amusing assertion in the immigration debate is that high-income countries like the USA and Britain NEED illegal immigrants to do low-paid menial work. "Who will pick our crops?" (etc.) is the cry. How odd it is then that Australians get all the normal services of a modern economy WITHOUT illegal immigrants! Yes: Before the pandemic, you usually COULD buy a lettuce in Australia for a dollar or thereabouts. And Australia IS a major exporter of primary products.

6). I am a libertarian conservative so I reject the "open door" policy favoured by many libertarians and many Leftists. Both those groups tend to have a love of simplistic generalizations that fail to deal with the complexity of the real world. It seems to me that if a person has the right to say whom he/she will have living with him/her in his/her own house, so a nation has the right to admit to living among them only those individuals whom they choose.

I can be reached on jonjayray@hotmail.com -- or leave a comment on any post. Abusive comments will be deleted.

Immigration Watch International (2)

Monday, July 29, 2024

The Great ‘Border Czar’ Whitewash

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