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Its humiliating for the president that almost three weeks since he appointed Kamala Harris as his border point woman, she still hasnt visited the disaster zone, come up with a plan or held a press conference on the migrant crisis.

Instead, shes visited a water treatment plant in California and a bakery in Chicago, where the press pool reported on her sweet tooth last week.

Her favorite is German chocolate, and [she] gets that for her birthday each year, and her staff had pre-ordered a slice for her. The bakerys specialty is caramel cake, and she said she was looking forward to that too.

Riveting stuff.

Meantime, the self-inflicted humanitarian tragedy at the southern border has spiraled out of control, opinion polls are heading south, the Biden appointee in charge has abruptly resigned, El Salvadors president has refused to meet the visiting US envoy, and the VP is defying her boss and staying far away from the stinking mess to protect her reputation.

But while the pair play pass the parcel, the vacuum of leadership is only fueling a humanitarian catastrophe.

President Biden knew when he appointed Harris to manage the crisis on March 24 that it was a poison chalice, which gives you a hint of the growing wariness in a relationship where the VP is referred to by insiders as The Heiress and Biden is regarded as incapable of serving a full term.

The White House announced at the time that Harris would lead our efforts with Mexico and the Northern Triangle in stemming the migration to our southern border.

But, when asked when she planned to go to the border, Harris responded with hysterical laughter. Not today, she chortled.

The vice president is not doing the border, her spokeswoman Symone Sanders told reporters two days later.

Instead, Harris would be addressing the root causes of the surge in migration. To that end, shes made two phone calls to regional leaders.

But the only root cause that matters is to restore Trump-era border protection measures that Biden unwound by executive decree: Restore the Remain in Mexico policy for asylum seekers, restart deportation of criminal aliens, finish the border wall and stop making children bait for cartels.

Biden has tried to claim the border surge is just a seasonal uptick, but numbers are soaring exponentially. Last month alone, 19,000 children were recorded crossing the border, double the previous month. The government reportedly anticipates more than 35,000 migrant children will need to be cared for by June.

Biden has put the sugar on the table for people smugglers and children are suffering.

Video footage online shows buses at a detention center in Texas in which every adult on board is accompanied by one small child. Bidens policy of accepting unaccompanied minors has made children the tickets for entry to America, but how do we know if these kids are even related to the adults holding their hands? No one is doing DNA tests.

Another video shows a sobbing 10-year-old Nicaraguan child walking alone on a road in Texas before telling a border agent he is afraid they might rob or kidnap me or something.

During a press conference last week, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott made stunning allegations of child sexual abuse at a migrant facility in San Antonio that holds more than 1,300 migrant children.

He told Fox News on Thursday that allegations of child sexual assault had been lodged with two state agencies in Texas: [It] was a very specific description about ways in which children were being sexually assaulted, where it was happening, who was doing it and the horrific things that were being done which I cannot tell you on TV The Biden administration knows about this and yet still nothing is happening.

Nothing except cynical distraction, denial and deflection.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi dismissed his complaints as ridiculous The fact is were on a good path at the border under the leadership of President Biden Its about restructuring because we were in a very bad situation under the Trump administration.

This is Bidens Operation Warp Speed: How to ruin a country in 100 days.

So desperate is the administration that government employees quietly are being offered four months paid leave from their jobs to help care for migrant children in shelters at the border, reports the New York Times.

But the White House wont even acknowledge there is a problem.

On Friday, press secretary Jen Psaki spent more than double the time talking about the Ukrainian border than Americas southern border: 262 words versus 94.

The reason for accepting these children is that we feel it is not the humane step to send these kids back on their treacherous journey, she said, as if the atrocities being committed in our name are compassionate.

Later that afternoon, the White House issued a statement that Roberta Jacobsen, the White House coordinator for the southern border, had resigned.

She must be the only person in the administration with a conscience.

As Hunter Biden has his reputation laundered by a fawning media, his abandoned laptop reveals the extent of entitlement and privilege long enjoyed by President Bidens family and vigorously exploited by his crack-loving son.

In a 2015 email exchange, Hunters cousin Missy Owens asks him to procure a government appointment for her mother, Valerie Owens, the sister of then-VP Joe Biden: I really want to get on something, but mom needs it more than I do right now. Hunter replies that he will go through the list with Steve [Ricchetti, then Joes chief of staff, now White House counselor] and see what makes sense. I dont know how much 2016 [the election] and nepotism plays into it.

Lo and behold, the following year, President Barack Obama appoints Aunt Val to a ceremonial role at the United Nations, a four-month stint that pays $26,000.

In addition, a memo to Hunter from his business partner Eric Schwerin in 2016 sets up two $12,500-per-month consulting contracts for Aunt Val when the UN gig runs out.

The Biden Foundation is to provide a Consulting Contract with Valerie Owens or her LLC for $12,500 a month for one year.

The other consultancy is with the University of Delaware, to coincide with the announcement of its Biden Center with Joe as founding chair.

Missy herself, along with sister Casey, landed a federal job during the Obama administration, before moving to a lucrative government relations job with Coca-Cola. See how it works?

The rules never apply to the Bidens. Jobs, Ivy League berths, internships, judge clerkships, all are there for the taking. When family members have a run-in with the law, they are treated with kid gloves, whether its DWI, credit card fraud, shoplifting, assaulting police, or lying on a background check form about your drug use when buying a gun, as Hunter did in 2016.

Black people have served serious time for far less. Rapper Kodak Black, for instance, was sentenced to 46 months in prison on federal weapons charges in 2019 after lying on the form to buy firearms.

Its a sick irony that, while Joe Biden wages war on white privilege, his 51-year-old son is the living embodiment of the worst of it.

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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) claimed Wednesday that Vice President Kamala Harris is only going to the southwestern border region this week to undercut a planned visit by former President Donald Trump next week.

I mean, 91 days ago, she was named as border czar, in charge of the border crisis, and she demonstrated strong leadership by doing not a damn thing, by going nowhere near the border, by doing everything she could to hide from the crisis, Cruz told Fox News America Reports.

Now frankly, thats the same thing Joe Biden is doing, the senator continued. Shes emulating the president in hiding from the crisis, and so suddenly President Trump is going to the border and they realized, Oh, crap, we gotta do something.

Harris is scheduled to visit El Paso, Texas with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Friday. The vice president has come under pressure from lawmakers of both parties to travel to the region amid a surge in illegal immigration that has seen apprehensions by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reach highs not seen in more than 20 years.

However, Cruz argued that by traveling to El Paso, Harris was avoiding what he called the locus of the crisis hundreds of miles away in the Rio Grande Valley.

Chicago, Illinois is closer to Washington DC, than El Paso is to McAllen, the senator said. And so shes going where the height of the problem isnt.

Kamala, you need to go to the Rio Grande Valley, Cruz continued. Kamala, you need to go to McAllen. Kamala, you need to go to the Donna tent facility, which is the tent city your administration has built that is massively over capacity, that has kids in cages. You need to look at the children in cages that you and Joe Biden put there in a way that is endangering their safety and subjecting them to abuse and sexual assault.

Cruz went on to claim that Harris was not traveling to the area because she doesnt want the cameras to see the Joe Biden cages with kids in cages.

Trump is scheduled to visit the border region on June 30 alongside Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who has declared a disaster in 34 counties along or near the border and announced earlier this month that he plans to construct a border wall.

After months of ignoring the crisis at the Southern Border, it is great that we got Kamala Harris to finally go and see the tremendous destruction and death that theyve createda direct result of Biden ending my very tough but fair Border policies, Trump said in a statement after the Harris trip was confirmed.

Harris and Biden were given the strongest Border in American history. And now, it is by far the worst in American history, the former president added. If Governor Abbott and I werent going there next week, she would have never gone!

In a second statement late Wednesday, Trump warned that [t]here has never been, in our Countrys history, a Border catastrophe like what is currently taking place at our Southern Border.

All Biden had to do is leave it the way it was, by far the strongest Southern Border our Country has ever had, he continued. Millions of people will now be streaming into our Country unchecked, unvetted, and unknown. Other countries are emptying their prisons with their worst criminals flowing into our Country. Drugs, gangs, and fugitives are pouring in every day. Hospitals, schools, communities, and police are overwhelmed. This is far more than a crisis, the former president concluded.

[O]ur Country is being destroyed!

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(Daily Caller News Foundation) Texas will build its own border wall as migrants continue illegally entering the state, Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced Thursday, the Austin American-Statesman reported.

Abbott hosted a border security meeting with Texas law enforcement officials to discuss how they can combat illegal entry at the border,accordingto Abbott.

Abbott criticized the Biden administrations policies for causing an increase in illegal migration to the southern border.

I will announce next week the plan for the state of Texas to begin building the border wall in the state of Texas, Abbott said, the American-Statesman reported.

The Biden admin promised to end border wall construction, but continued seizing Texans land through April for new sections of the wall to be installed, the Daily Caller News Foundation reported.

President Bidens open-border policies have led to a humanitarian crisis at our southern border as record levels of illegal immigrants, drugs, and contraband pour into Texas, Abbott said in a statement.

The Biden administration threatened Tuesday to sue Abbott if the state follows through with plans to close federal facilities holding migrant minors operating in the state, the DCNFreported. The Biden administration argued Abbotts disaster declaration discriminates against the federal government by targeting facilities it contracts with.

While securing the border is the federal governments responsibility, Texas will not sit idly by as this crisis grows, Abbott added. The state is working collaboratively with communities impacted by the crisis to arrest and detain individuals coming into Texas illegally.

Customs and Border Protection officialsapprehendedover 180,000 migrants at the southern border in May,accordingto the agency. Nearly 51,000 of migrants apprehended in May were encountered along Texas Rio Grande Valley sector and another 40,000 were apprehended in the Laredo and Del Rio sectors.

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Morocco and Spain tradednew accusations on Monday in a diplomatic row triggered by theWestern Sahara territorial issue that led this month to amigration crisis in Spain's enclave in northern Morocco.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez described Morocco'sactions in appearing to relax border controls with the enclaveof Ceuta as unacceptable and an assault on national borders.

Morocco's Foreign Ministry meanwhile blamed Spain forbreaking "mutual trust and respect", drawing parallels betweenthe issues of Western Sahara and Spain's Catalonia region, wherethere is an independence movement.

The dispute was sparked by Spain admitting Western Saharaindependence movement leader Brahim Ghali for medical treatmentwithout informing Rabat.

"It is not acceptable for a government to say that we willattack the borders, that we will open up the borders to let in10,000 migrants in less than 48 hours ... because of foreignpolicy disagreements," Sanchez said at a news conference.

Most migrants who crossed into Ceuta were immediatelyreturned to Morocco, but hundreds of unaccompanied minors, whocannot be deported under Spanish law, remain.

The influx was widely seen as retaliation for Spain'sdecision to discreetly take in Ghali.

Morocco regards Western Sahara as part of its own territory.

The Algeria-backed Polisario seeks an independent state in theterritory, where Spain was colonial ruler until 1975.

Describing Spain as Morocco's best ally in the EuropeanUnion, Sanchez said he wanted to convey a constructive attitudetoward Rabat but insisted that border security was paramount.

"Remember that neighbourliness ... must be based on respectand confidence," he said.

Morocco's foreign ministry said in a statement that Spainviolated good neighbourliness and mutual trust and thatmigration was not the problem.

Rabat added that it has cooperated with Madrid in curbingmigrant flows and in countering terrorism, which it said helpedfoil 82 militant attacks in Spain.

The case of Ghali "revealed the hostile attitudes andharmful strategies of Spain regarding the Moroccan Sahara," theministry said in a statement.

Spain "cannot combat separatism at home and promote it inits neighbour," it said, noting Rabat's support for Madridagainst the Catalan independence movement.

Separately Ghali, who has been hospitalised with COVID-19 inLogrono in the Rioja region, will attend a high court hearingremotely on Tuesday from the hospital, his lawyers office said.

Morocco, which has withdrawn its ambassador to Madrid, hassaid it may sever ties with Spain if Ghali left the country thesame way he entered without a trial.

(REUTERS)

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U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building during the virtual National Bar Association meeting in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, July 27, 2021.

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Vice President Kamala Harris released a sweeping strategy on Thursday to address the root causes of migration amid the recent surge in illegal U.S.-Mexico border crossings.

The strategy states that the pandemic and "extreme weather conditions" have exacerbated the root causes of migration, which includes corruption, violence, trafficking and poverty.

The announcement comes as the administration faces a southern border crisis, with migrant detentions hitting 20-year highs in recent months.

More than 1.1 million apprehensions have been recorded during the first six months of this fiscal year, according to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection. And a record high of nearly 190,000 apprehensions were recorded in June alone.

While the Biden administration has sent millions of vaccine doses and hurricane relief to Central America, Harris noted that providing such short-term relief is "not enough to alleviate suffering in the long term."

Instead, the vice president's strategy promises more sustained efforts to address motivations for migration, including refocusing engagement with Central America.

"In Central America, the root causes of migration run deep and migration from the region has a direct impact on the United States," Harris wrote in a cover letter discussing the plan. "For that reason, our nation must consistently engage with the region to address the hardships that cause people to leave Central America and come to our border."

Earlier this year, President Joe Biden tapped Harris to lead the administration's diplomatic efforts to address the causes of migration from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, and she visited the U.S.-Mexico border in June as a part of those efforts.

The strategy is the vice president's most recent step to address these root causes, and is a core component of the Biden administration's broader plan released Tuesday to establish a "fair, orderly and humane immigration system."

The plan is broken down into five pillars but it does not provide a detailed timeline or policy actions to be taken. The pillars include addressing economic insecurity and inequality, combating democratic corruption and promoting respect for human rights.

The plan also addresses gang violence and crimes, and combating sexual and gender-based violence.

Harris noted that the United Nations and the governments of Mexico, Japan and South Korea have committed to joining the effort to address the motivations of migration from Central America.

"The United States cannot do this work alone," Harris wrote in the cover letter. "Our Strategy is far-reachingand focuses on our partnerships with other governments, international institutions, businesses, foundations, and civil society."

On Tuesday, the White House also released a "Collaborative Migration Management Strategy," which President Joe Biden ordered in February. It outlines how the U.S. will work with other countries to "manage safe, orderly and humane migration" in North and Central America.

Efforts include expanding job opportunities and protections in countries where migrants leave, ensuring that border management is secure and humane and creating more legal pathways to come to the U.S.

Dozens of migrants of Central American and Mexican origin sleep on the esplanade of the National Institute of Migration near the El Chaparral border crossing, waiting for U.S. authorities to let them enter to begin their humanitarian asylum process in this country.

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Republicans have slammed the Biden administration over its immigration policies, claiming that its roll-back of several policies issued under former President Donald Trump have encouraged illegal migration to the U.S.

Democrats and immigration advocates have also mounted pressure on Biden, calling for him to ensure the humane treatment of migrant children and families at the border and lift a Trump-era public health order known as Title 42.

The health order has allowed border officials to expel migrants without giving them the chance to claim asylum.

On Monday, the Biden administration also announced that it would speed up deportations for some migrant families through "expedited removal," which allows immigration authorities to deport a migrant without a hearing before a immigration judge.

The speedy deportation procedure will specifically apply to family units who are not deported to Mexico under Title 42 and fail to qualify for asylum, according to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security.

That decision drew further criticism from advocates on the left.

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