Vice President Kamala Harris vs Donald Trump 2024

That's NOT giving her responsibility for the border.. Jesus why is this so hard for some people.

She was asked to work with the countries in the Northern Triangle on the root causes of Immigration.

You know - stuff like poverty, crime , depravation etc. to see if they could help those countries keep their people at home by making "home" safer, more attractive etc.

It has been shown that spending some money on a new health centre,school or even basic sanitation is much more cost effective than spending the same money on border guards in terms of encouraging those people to stay put.

However , That is NOT responsibility for Border security or policies around actions taken at the border or staff levels etc. etc.

That is not the "Border Czar" as the GOP have invented whole cloth.

The person responsible for deciding what happens at the border in terms of what teams are sent where , who they arrest and what they get arrested for and so on is Majorkas.

They have already tried and failed to impeach him.

I think "Defund the police" is a bit of a misnomer really , another thing blown out of proportion for the GOP.

The Police in the US are sent in to far too many situations where they are not needed and are not trained or suitable for.

Diverting some of the money spent by the police on buying MRAPs and other military hardware and the like into more social workers and mental health professionals so that the police aren't used in those scenarios where their "conflict 1st" approach leads to far far too many tragic outcomes , would not be a bad thing in general.

Suggesting that there are more effective ways of making society safer than simply putting more and more "armed boots on the ground" really isn't some kind crazy idea. It makes sense and has been done with huge success in multiple countries around the world.

But in the binary world of US politics if you say "hey can we think about how we might better spend this money" it becomes "Ahhh.. They want to get rid of the police , they want to leave you exposed and at risk of murder from those damn immigrant death squads!!!!"

Hyperbolic nonsense.

It's impossible to have a conversation with Republicans in the US about how to fix the structural societal problems in the country primarily because they refuse to accept that the US is anything less than absolute perfection.