Why hasn't Kamala been to the border?

You’ve always failed at reading thing in context.

Instead you cherry pick words and phrases without the benefit of the complete statement made.

Predictably Gia.

What is more important? Harris working to figure out how to actually handle this crisis, while not posing for a meaningless photo op, or someone like our former First Lady traveling to the border for a meaningless photo op wearing a jacket that says on the back, "I really don't care, do U?"

Good grief, the fucking hypocrisy is astounding.

I don't think it is disrespectful to refer to her as Kamala or VP, I'm not a fan of calling her Harris, but that is because I work with one and she's a moron.

You can't just say Mike or Joe because they don't invoke a specific person. If someone said Barack, I'd totally know who they were talking about.

But Trump has shown himself to be a horrible human being, not just a horrible president. Calling him names, while maybe not the most mature thing, is certainly not unwarranted.

From the CBP aka Customs & Border Protection.  June 9, 2021…link

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) today released operational statistics for May 2021, which can be viewed here.

CBP Enforcement Numbers

In May 2021, CBP encountered 180,034 persons attempting entry along the Southwest Border. This total represented a 1 percent increase over April 2021.

Single adults continue to make up the majority of these encounters. In May 2021, CBP expelled 112,302 individuals under Title 42. CBP continues to expel single adults and family units that are encountered pursuant to CDC guidance under Title 42 authority. 62 percent of all May encounters resulted in a Title 42 expulsion.

Encounters along the Southwest Border of unaccompanied children and single minors from Northern Triangle countries dropped again this month by 23 percent, with 10,765 encounters in May 2021 compared with 13,940 in April 2021. Encounters of family units from Northern Triangle countries also dropped again, decreasing by 31 percent to 22,630 in May 2021, down from 32,674 in April.

The large number of expulsions during the pandemic has contributed to a larger-than-usual number of noncitizens making multiple border crossing attempts, and means total encounters somewhat overstate the number of unique individuals arriving at the border. Thirty-eight percent of encounters in May 2021 were individuals who had at least one prior encounter in the previous 12 months, compared to an average one-year re-encounter rate of 15 percent for Fiscal Years 2014-2019.

CBP enforcement numbers for May 2021 can be found here.

Life-saving Rescues

Smuggling organizations are abandoning migrants in remote and dangerous areas, leading to a dramatic rise in the number of rescues CBP performs. In May 2021, CBP conducted 7,084 rescues nationwide, and CBP has rescued 35 percent more individuals in Fiscal Year 2021 than all of Fiscal Year 2020.

Migrant Protection Protocols

On January 20, 2021, the Department of Homeland Security suspended new enrollments into the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) program, which returned certain noncitizens to Mexico pending removal proceedings before an immigration judge under Section 240 of the Immigration and Naturalization Act. Shortly thereafter, President Biden issued EO 14010 directing the secretary to "consider a phased strategy for the safe and orderly entry into the United States, consistent with public health and safety and capacity constraints, of those individuals who have been subjected to MPP for further processing of their asylum claims," and to review MPP and determine whether to modify or terminate the program. On February 19, 2021, CBP began processing into the United States those individuals previously enrolled in MPP who had pending immigration court proceedings. Over the last several months, DHS has worked with interagency partners to establish such a process and has permitted more than 11,000 individuals enrolled in MPP with cases pending before EOIR to enter the country. And on June 1, 2021, after completing the review, Secretary Mayorkas formally terminated the program.

Unaccompanied Children in Custody

The average daily number of children in CBP custody has decreased significantly to 640 in May 2021 from 2,895 in April 2021. In April, unaccompanied children spent an average of 92 hours in CBP custody. In May, unaccompanied children held in CBP facilities spent an average of 26 hours.

This sustained progress is a result of the steps DHS took to reengineer processes and mobilize personnel Department-wide, including designating FEMA to lead a whole of government effort to assist the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) with establishing temporary facilities that provide a safe, sanitary, and secure environment for unaccompanied children as well as detailing to HHS more than 350 officers from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to more efficiently and effectively verify claimed sponsors to support the reunification process.

Drug Seizures

CBP officers, Border Patrol agents, and Air and Marine Operations agents continue to interdict the flow of illicit narcotics across the border. Nationwide, drug seizures were up 18 percent in May from April 2021. Cocaine interceptions decreased 18 percent. Seizures of methamphetamine increased 53 percent. Seizures of heroin increased 7 percent and seizures of fentanyl increased 9 percent. CBP continues to see a surge in fentanyl seizures. Seizures in Fiscal Year 2021 through May are 56 percent higher than all of Fiscal Year 2020.

Additional CBP drug seizure statistics can be found here.

CBP COVID-19 Response

The safety of our workforce, our communities, and individuals in our care is a top priority. CBP personnel put themselves and their families at risk with every encounter at the border. Since the start of the pandemic, more than 8,800 CBP employees have tested positive for COVID-19, and 32 have passed away. CBP is continuing to explore possible adjustments to workforce posture and health protocols based on widespread vaccine access and easing public health metrics.

Trade

CBP continues to aggressively investigate and prevent goods made by forced labor from entering the U.S. commerce. Forced labor is a form of modern-day slavery that violates international labor standards and universal human rights. Foreign companies use forced labor to produce goods at lower costs, which hurts law-abiding businesses in the United States. Since the beginning of Fiscal Year 2021, CBP has:

Published two forced labor findings that instruct U.S. ports of entry to immediately seize certain disposable glove and stevia imports.
Issued five Withhold Release Orders that instruct U.S. ports of entry to detain certain cotton products, tomato products, palm oil, tuna, and other seafood produced using forced labor.

Targeted 1,255 shipments arriving in the United States that contained more than $765 million of goods suspected to be made by forced labor.

Detained almost $84 million of goods suspected of being made by forced labor in the 623 shipments that applied for entry and deterred the remainder of the targeted shipments from entering the United States.

The United States will not tolerate forced labor in our supply chains and will always stand up against cruel and inhumane labor practices.

US News - March 16, 2022.   link

“Biden Administration Acknowledges ‘Especially Difficult’ Challenge at the Border”

From the article….

“And the Trump administration shoulders much of the blame, Mayorkas said.

The prior administration completely dismantled the asylum system. The system was gutted, facilities were closed, and they cruelly expelled young children into the hands of traffickers. We have had to rebuild the entire system, including the policies and procedures required to administer the asylum laws that Congress passed long ago," Mayorkas said.

The Trump administration also cut funding to the Northern Triangle countries of Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, Mayorkas noted. And "there was no appropriate planning for the pandemic at all."

Border agents a year ago began expelling migrants immediately at the border under a public health order issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at the request of the Trump administration, turning them back to Mexico without arresting and processing them as normal.

Biden has kept that order in place but announced early last month that his administration would stop turning away minors caught crossing the border by themselves. Border agents are currently expelling most single adults and families but processing unaccompanied minors as they are required to do by law.

As crossings by minors and families jump, the CDC order has led to significant recidivism among single adults crossing the border, leading to a dramatic increase in overall encounters by border agents.

"We are on pace to encounter more individuals on the southwest border than we have in the last 20 years," Mayorkas said in the statement.

Thousands of migrant children are currently being held in border facilities well past the three-day legal limit. Border facilities are not designed to hold children and border agents are not trained to deal with minors. Minors are transferred from border facilities to shelters run by the Department of Health and Human Service's Office of Refugee Resettlement, where they stay until the government can find a vet sponsor to take responsibility for them – typically a family member or parent already in the U.S.”


As a reminder, the June 9 CDC report says they are making progress in cutting down the time the kids stay in their custody.

“ Every single democrat candidate agreed to decriminalize coming across the border illegally ”

The video says nothing about this. And that was what my response was to. If you have a video showing they said that, please share and I will acknowledge it. But I will disagree with them. Coming across the border illegally is just that illegally. They have a legal option of seeking asylum.

As to giving healthcare to undocumented folks, I believe CA already does that. And I don’t have a problem with it. Without it if they get sick they go emergency rooms who can’t turn them away. Or they aren’t suppose to. Often they won’t be able to pay for their care which means one way or another the rest of us do. So it makes sound financial sense to make sure they have healthcare insurance and be able to go to the doctor for the little things before they turn into the big things.

oh, I fully accept and acknowledge that the times I would refer to Donald Trump as "Donnie," Mitch McConnell as 'the turtle' et. al. were totally a disrespect thing.  But I didn't do it very often (with DT, I avoided saying or writing his name as much as possible)... so there is no double standard from me as it pertains to VP Harris.  However, I do still see it more as a sexist thing done more by men to women (so to speak), than by men to other men.

You are missing the point that as a miserable excuse for a human being, trump did not deserve respect.  He repeatedly proved that fact by his actions, his tweets, his ridicule of anyone who did not worship at his feet.  The office may have deserved respect, the man holding that office proved to be completely unworthy of that respect.  He was and still is a complete and utter self-serving jackass.

You have to stop taking out of context Trump campaign ads as gospel truth.

www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/aug/01/donald-trump/fact-checking-trump-ad-democrats-health-care-immig/

Honestly, though, I think anyone who is here doing a job that most Americans don’t want to do deserves access to health care.

I just find it so ridiculous that the right is like, this is the greatest country in the world! The best! The most free! And then they’re also like, omg, stop making people want to come here. Most of us are descendants of people who came here looking for more freedom and opportunity. Now, because the blessings of civilization mean that opportunity comes with access to education and healthcare, well, sorry, the doors are closed.

And don’t give me bullshit about how they could come here legally. The path to legal immigration for a poor person from south of our border is so onerous that it’s effectively impossible.

This just illustrates how completely ignorant you are to the existing conditions in Central America and the history of US involvement in the politics of Central America — including financing and planning the over throw of democratically elected governments because they are too far “left”.

Sorry sweetheart but nope.

You’re pulling the same crap you always do.

If you’re wrong you work yourself into a smoke and mirror deflection twisting and turning to try to keep your point.

My comment was clear—you only chose to use PART of what was said to try yo make your point without including the other part of what was said in the same conversation.

You’re disingenuous. More often than not.

To paraphrase John Lennon: The [respect] you take is equal to the [respect] you make. Former deserves no respect. He is an insult to the Office of the President. He is just a disgusting human and worthy only of the respect he gives to others….which is none.

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I think I saved this from NSBR last year.

Voting is not about checking a box next to “Perfect.” It is asking and answering: “Which candidate, who we will still have to challenge on some issues, gives us the best opportunity to be on the path to a more just, humane, peaceful world?”

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My guess both Fox News and Republicans in Congress will go bonkers when they see this and go and on and on about her not going to the border for a photo op.