Kamala Harris visited the southern border on Friday to share the language, policies and promises of current pro-immigration Border Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
She embraced Mayorkas' strategy to reduce death and disruption caused by illegal immigration. simply open more doors It allows immigrants to enter the United States, whether legal or not. “We understand that many people are eager to immigrate to the United States. Our system must be orderly and secure, that is my goal. “That's the goal,” she said, without saying whether she wanted more immigrants to enter the United States.
Her phrasing is consistent with Mayorkas' language, which uses loopholes and deference to the judiciary to encourage more than 10 million legal, illegal, semi-legal and temporary immigrants since 2021.
The dire consequences of his “orderly and open” policies include housing inflation, wage cuts, technology slowdowns, rising crime, civil unrest, and violent protests with former President Donald Trump's return to the White House in sight. This includes political conflicts.
Harris used the speech to persuade voters worried about her weak record on the border, and also to get a TV photo of herself looking tough on the border.
Unsurprisingly, establishment media portrayed her speech as “harsh”, downplaying the contradictions and concealing the underlying economic strategy of cheap labor migration.
“Vice President Kamala Harris delivered one of the toughest speeches of her generation on immigration and border policy.” said of new york times.
“vice president kamala harris And her campaign on Friday proposed new border restrictions that go beyond the emergency rules the Biden administration introduced in June. washington post reported,addition:
Ms. Harris has proposed lowering the daily threshold and holding the threshold for a long time before starting the asylum system, said a campaign official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss plans that have not been formally announced. It states that the requirements must be met. The official did not provide further details.
Change of asylum Brought to court by the ACLUand would likely require approval from Congress, where Democrats have pushed hard to dramatically expand asylum flows.
Ms. Harris did not criticize the enormous pocket, civic and political costs of Ms. Mayorkas' elite-supporting policies. Instead, she plagiarized Mr. Mayorkas' speeches and statements while pledging to continue Mr. Mayorkas' provision of cheap labor for the Democratic Party's “Bidenomics” economic strategy.
I believe that the United States is a sovereign nation and has an obligation to set rules around our borders and boundaries. to force themAnd I take that responsibility very seriously. we are also a nation of immigrants. Until now, the United States enrichThis book is compiled by generations of people who have come from all corners of the world to serve our country and be part of America's story. Therefore, we must reform our immigration system to ensure it works. An orderly method that is humane And that's what makes our country strong.
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We must ensure that our country remains strong and competitive. broken immigration system. To be clear, I reject the false choice between securing our borders and creating an immigration system. security, order and humanity. We can and must do both. You have to do both. And we need to clarify legal route For those who wish to enter our country. And we need to make the current system work better. For example, asylum claims can take years to be decided. Well, this is a problem we can solve. This includes hiring more asylum workers and expanding refugee admissions. Processing centers in people's home countries.
Ms. Harris and Mr. Mayorkas' collaboration with corporate-backed immigration advocates stands in contrast to Mr. Trump's increasingly populist message on immigration. On Thursday, he told reporters in New York.
They flooded the labor market with low-wage immigrants. However, immigrants often have diverse backgrounds, including criminal records, murders, and drug dealing, and are often trafficked, mostly women. [for prostitution]. Last month, American-born workers lost 1.3 million jobs.
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[Migrants] They are displacing jobs from the black population at a level never seen before. Hispanics are suffering, and so are their families. They go out and have jobs, but they lost their jobs to illegal immigration.
At the border, Harris promised to admit more legal immigrants, but reiterated her campaign promise to deploy an additional border agent every five miles along the 2,000-mile border, saying, “I am committed to the comprehensive package written last year.'' “I strongly supported the border security bill.” , you know, was written last year by a bipartisan group of senators. …This bill would result in the hiring of 1,500 additional border agents and staff.
She also promised to sign the Senate's border security bill, while also pledging to enact policies that would narrow asylum rights at the border and give an unlimited number of immigrants fast-track asylum routes to jobs and citizenship. promised to create a
I will take further action to keep our borders closed. Anyone who crosses the border illegally between ports of entry will be arrested, deported, and banned from re-entering the country for five years. We will pursue tougher criminal charges against repeat offenders, and if someone crosses the border illegally rather than applying for asylum at a legal point of entry, they will be barred from asylum.
Regarding fentanyl smuggling, she declared, “We must approach this problem from all angles, because protecting the lives of our people should be our greatest responsibility.”
But like Mayorkas, she flatly refused to threaten the governments of Mexico or China, which allow fentanyl poison to be mass produced and supplied to American communities.
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