Kamala’s $5B Border Strategy Saw 500K Unaccompanied Migrant Children Shipped to U.S.
by Randy Clark 2 Aug 2024
Despite coordinating the investment of more than $5 billion in public and private investments to increase employment opportunities and reduce corruption in Central America, Vice President Kamala Harris’s efforts to stem the flow of migrants across the southwest border have failed miserably. According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, more than 500 thousand unaccompanied migrant children arrived at the United States border with Mexico since the Biden-Harris administration took office.
Although the vice president made attempts to distance herself from the unofficial title of “Border Czar,” her role was publicly announced by President Biden during a March 2021 White House briefing, the president assigned the lead immigration role to the vice president during his remarks, stating, “In addition to that, there’s about five other major things she’s handling, but I’ve asked her, the VP, today — because she’s the most qualified person to do it — to lead our efforts with Mexico and the Northern Triangle and the countries that help — are going to need help in stemming the movement of so many folks, stemming the migration to our southern border.”
According to CBP, between October 2023 and June 2024, more than 90,000 unaccompanied migrant children were encountered at the southwest border. According to the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), approximately 80 percent of those migrant children were from the same Central American countries receiving the more than $5 billion in investments coordinated by Vice President Harris during her tenure as lead border strategist in the Biden-Harris administration.
https://www.alipac.us/f12/kamala%92s-%245b-border-strategy-saw-500k-unaccompanied-migrant-children-shipped-u-s-422424/
