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“I think you actually see this in the bit of daylight that emerged between her and the White House early in Biden\u2019s term. I warned in March 2021<\/a> that Biden wasn\u2019t thinking clearly about the asylum situation. His administration didn\u2019t want a ton of asylum-seekers to show up at the border, but was also unwilling to actually say that or align their policies clearly with the goal of preventing it. The person who was<\/em> willing to say it was Kamala Harris, who got saddled with the quasi-impossible task of ending the root causes of migration via diplomatic engagement with Central America, but who managed to fly to Guatemala and actually say the thing \u2014 \u201cdo not come\u201d \u2014 that should have been the administration\u2019s top to bottom message.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Groups<\/a> and media leftists<\/a> yelled at her, the Biden administration didn\u2019t back her up, and now, three years later, her biggest political vulnerability is still her association with Biden\u2019s efforts to appease the Groups. The good news on the substance of immigration policy is that Biden eventually changed course<\/a>, and now crossings are lower than they were at the end of Trump\u2019s term<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harris has also clearly said that she wants to sign the border security bill that Trump quashed for his own personal political game. Immigration groups originally revolted, not so much at the substance of the bill (which is good<\/a>!) but at the idea<\/em> of doing anything on border security detached from a path to citizenship for the long-resident undocumented. Biden belatedly shifted Democrats off this bit of Groups-think by linking the border security measures to aid for Ukraine. But Harris is now advocating for border security in a freestanding way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I personally would love to see comprehensive immigration reform, but it\u2019s clear that the construct ran aground some time ago. And Harris has been steering, from the get-go, toward a more sensible approach that involves considering individual immigration policy changes on the merits. Back in 2019, she co-sponsored a skilled migration bill with Mike Lee<\/a> at a time when the idea of doing this detached from comprehensive reform was anathema to The Groups.”
…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I sincerely understand why people with very right-wing policy views might decide they want to overlook Trump\u2019s well-known flaws and roll the dice on the possibility that he does something catastrophic. But if you\u2019re a normal person with some mixed feelings about the parties, I think you will be dramatically<\/em> happier with the results that come from President Harris negotiating with congressional Republicans over exactly which tax breaks should be extended rather than a re-empowered Trump backed by a 6-3 Supreme Court and supportive majorities in Congress.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“I think you actually see this in the bit of daylight that emerged between her and the White House early in Biden\u2019s term. I warned in March 2021 that Biden wasn\u2019t thinking clearly about the asylum situation. His administration didn\u2019t want a ton of asylum-seekers to show up at the border, but was also unwilling to actually say that or align their policies clearly with the goal of preventing it. The person who was willing to say it was Kamala Harris, who got saddled with the quasi-impossible task of ending the root causes of migration via diplomatic engagement with Central America, but who managed to fly to Guatemala and actually say the thing \u2014 \u201cdo not come\u201d \u2014 that should have been the administration\u2019s top to bottom message.
\nThe Groups and media leftists yelled at her, the Biden administration didn\u2019t back her up, and now, three years later, her biggest political vulnerability is still her association with Biden\u2019s efforts to appease the Groups. The good news on the substance of immigration policy is that Biden eventually changed course, and now crossings are lower than they were at the end of Trump\u2019s term.<\/p>\n

Harris has also clearly said that she wants to sign the border security bill that Trump quashed for his own personal political game. Immigration groups originally revolted, not so much at the substance of the bill (which is good!) but at the idea of doing anything on border security detached from a path to citizenship for the long-resident undocumented. Biden belatedly shifted Democrats off this bit of Groups-think by linking the border security measures to aid for Ukraine. But Harris is now advocating for border security in a freestanding way.<\/p>\n

I personally would love to see comprehensive immigration reform, but it\u2019s clear that the construct ran aground some time ago. And Harris has been steering, from the get-go, toward a more sensible approach that involves considering individual immigration policy changes on the merits. Back in 2019, she co-sponsored a skilled migration bill with Mike Lee at a time when the idea of doing this detached from comprehensive reform was anathema to The Groups.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“I sincerely understand why people with very right-wing policy views might decide they want to overlook Trump\u2019s well-known flaws and roll the dice on the possibility that he does something catastrophic. But if you\u2019re a normal person with some mixed feelings about the parties, I think you will be dramatically happier with the results that come from President Harris negotiating with congressional Republicans over exactly which tax breaks should be extended rather than a re-empowered Trump backed by a 6-3 Supreme Court and supportive majorities in Congress.”<\/p>\n

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