Kamala Harris Visits Border To Find "Root Causes"

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(06-30-2021, 02:05 AM)BFritz21 Wrote: Aside from the fact that Kamala Harris went to the border where there's something like two-and-a-half less border crossings than the hot spots in Texas, how was she going to find the root causes in Texas?  Was she going to interview illegal immigrants?  Wouldn't she need to go into Mexico to find out that information?

Secondly, aren't the root causes known?  Drug cartels forcing people to join gangs, drugs, better economic opportunities, and things like that?

Thirdly, let's say she "finds out" that those are indeed the causes, what's she going to do about it?  Invade Mexico?  It's a pretty big country and I doubt it would be possible to defeat all of those gangs and drug cartels and how would she get a better grasp of the economic problems and come up with solutions from Texas?

Pretty sure she was just trying to beat Trump down there in another failure of the dumpster fire that is the current administration.

She already went to Mexico and Guatemala in early June to look into the root causes of the surge in migrants at the border. Even after that, right wingers kept asking why she refuses to go to the border... Going to the border won't actually fix anything, as Kamala rightly knew. There are plenty of people there already and the border isn't causing the situation, so why go there? Because it's an optics thing. 

"If the vice president tasked with helping to resolve the border situation doesn't go to the border, how could she possibly fix the problem?" Is presumably the question that people were asking. So she scheduled the visit, basically, to shut right wingers up.

Which is kind of funny since now you're saying the exact same thing she was implying by going to Mexico and Guatemala rather than the border. You agree with the "lefties" on something, Brad.

Also, the root causes aren't as known as you seem to think. Sure, gangs, drugs etc are driving people away from their countries, but how did those gangs and drugs take over to the extent that they did? Did it, perhaps, have something to do with American orchestrated coups in many Latin American countries that destabilized their governments and allowed corruption to take hold? Was it abject poverty caused by a lack of support from first world nations in the face of multiple weather disasters and climate change? Who's to say? These circumstances didn't just pop up out of thin air, after all.