Immigration Kamala Harris: We Can’t Secure The Border Until We Transform Central America Into A Paradise

In just five months, it seems Vice President Kamala Harris has managed to crack the code on illegal immigration.

The vice president's "Root causes" document amounts to a heap of bureaucratic nonsense from an administration that has never taken illegal immigration seriously and whose own policies have turned the border crisis into a maelstrom of chaos.

Every step of the way, Harris has shown a mixture of dismissiveness and incuriosity in her role as Biden's "Border czar." After a quick jaunt to Mexico and Guatemala last month, and an even more superficial stopover in El Paso, Harris has now released what amounts to a list of warmed-over platitudes about creating opportunity and fighting corruption in Central America.

If you begin with the assumption that the only way to stop illegal immigration is to transform Central America into a model of good governance and economic prosperity, then you'll never stop illegal immigration.

The Harris strategy, if you can even call it that, is described as "a core component of our Administration's efforts to establish a fair, orderly, and humane immigration system." But there's no mention of other core components that must be a part of such a strategy in order to succeed.

We can't solve our illegal immigration problem without changing our approach vis-à-vis Mexico and Central America.

One major shift, for example, is to begin thinking of illegal immigration not primarily as a domestic political issue but as a national security and a foreign policy issue, and to stop thinking of the governments of the sending countries as partners with whom we can collaborate but as bad actors who need some serious arm-twisting to do the right thing.

https://thefederalist.com/2021/07/30/kamala-harris-we-cant-secure-the-border-until-we-transform-central-america-into-a-paradise/