How Fruitful Have Kamala Harris’s ‘Root Causes’ Efforts Been?
Not very, and here are the stats to prove it
By Andrew R. Arthur on August 5, 2024
There’s been much discussion of late about the role Vice President (and presumptive 2024 Democratic presidential candidate) Kamala Harris has played in the Biden-Harris administration’s border crisis. Republicans (and a few Democrats) point out that she was “border czar” and thus bears her share of the blame, while her supporters contend she was tasked only with dealing with the “root causes” of illegal migration in Central America and nothing else.
So, assuming that she was responsible only for root causes, how fruitful have her efforts been in that regard? Not very, and the statistics prove it. The short version of the story is that while total apprehensions (inflated by Title 42 expulsions during Covid) of aliens from what you might call the root-causes countries did indeed decline, apprehensions of aliens processed under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), so-called “Title 8” apprehensions, have grown significantly, as have grants of parole at the ports of entry to inadmissible aliens.
Southwest Border Apprehensions from the “Northern Triangle”. Even as illegal migration from outside North America has exploded, the Biden-Harris administration’s root causes strategy has focused on illegal migration from just three countries in Central America: El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. The three are known collectively as the “Northern Triangle
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