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GOP wants to hold Harris’s immigration record against her - what did she do?

www.theguardian.com GOP wants to hold Harris’s immigration record against her - what did she do?

US vice-president has been called a ‘border czar’ by Trump and a ‘champion for Dreamers’ by immigration advocates

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Well, she was born female, black, AND Asian.
- It's her cardinal sin. /s
  
  In all honesty, I fear that this is somehow her strongest weakness, because I fear the prejudices too many voters may have. I also hope that her campaign won't focus on the fact that she is femal, black and asian. Because these attributes does not qualify her for the job, nor - more importantly - disqualifies her for it. I hope that the majority of the voters in the key states see this as I do it and vote for her.
Article explaining it all from 2021:

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/25/1009939218/harris-is-visiting-the-southern-border-after-trying-to-keep-the-focus-away-from-
Helped us outsource the human rights abuses necessary to keep the people of the global south trapped in places the US government and businesses have ruined to places far enough away that our journalists won't cover them. If the reality could break through she should be a hit with Republicans on this issue, but obviously that's pretty unlikely.
- Yes, of course. Kamala Harris made El Salvador invest in crypto, corrupted Argentina's government to print money, worked with cartels to overtake local governments and police forces in Mexico, and forced Guatemala to replace their economic systems with straight bribes. Damn that Kamala Harris.
  
  Anyone capable of doing all that deserves our vote just in the hopes they show us mercy.
  
  I mean, certainly the US isn’t uninvolved in fuckin up the economies and safety status of all these places that have gradually been becoming hellholes. You didn’t mention Honduras or Venezuela I noticed… yeah I mean not everything is our fault, but some is.
  
  To the Biden administration’s credit, it was trying to pursue some kind of theory that what Harris was gonna be in charge of was addressing the root causes of this huge surge in immigration from the South. But even if we posit that she’s making a sincere effort in that regard (which, okay fine, I am fine with positing), what’s she gonna do? She’s gonna show up in her little Vice President cape and order the whole of US government and industry “Hey! I need you to stop stealing resources and destabilizing a nearby part of the world that’s not strong enough to prevent it! That is NOT COOL!” and they’re just gonna think it’s funny and keep doing it.
  
  And all in the last four years.
  
  Yes, of course, the United States has definitely never propped up any right wing death squads in Latin America, and it doesn't send their highly corrupted police forces tens of millions of dollars in military aid and then turn a blind eye when the gang members those forces employ extort and abuse and murder people, we've always been so committed to human rights down there /s
  
  Didn't start with Kamala, but she sure didn't change shit about it
- Brain-worm infestation going on here.
  
  Yeah, there are a ton of people on this instance who really don't want to accept the US governments complicity in human rights abuses and the monstrousness of the immigration policies pursued by both sides, and plenty of propaganda to help them drown all that uncomfortable stuff out
- Any source to back that up?

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