© Annabelle Gordon – Pool via CNP / SplashNews.comPresident Biden exploded at his staff when they failed to produce obscure immigration data during a January 2023 meeting aboard Air Force One, according to a report.
Those in attendance at the volatile meeting aboard Air Force One in late January 2023 later vented that Biden's frustrations over the issue have made it increasingly difficult to reach decisions about the border, Axios said Monday.
"There are definite incentives ... to not be the person who owns the scary issue with no solutions," a source said.
"If you're the person briefing the president, you get to piss him off every day," the source said.
Adding to the debacle is the fact that Vice President Kamala Harris has missed "an opportunity" to demonstrate her leadership during the crisis, sources said.
"She's been at best ineffective, and at worst sporadically engaged and not seeing it was her responsibility," a former senior Biden administration official told the outlet. "It's an opportunity for her, and she didn't fill the breach."
Comment: Of course not. Kamala is on board with the woke 'unlimited immigration is good' crowd. Why would she actually do anything to impede that?
- Biden obviously doesn't care about border security or human trafficking, since the government has lost 45,000 kids
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The White House told Axios that the previously unreported meeting — which included then-deputy chief of staff Jen O'Malley Dillon and Homeland Security adviser Liz Sherwood-Randall — was "productive" and claimed that "multiple firsthand participants of the meeting refute this description of the tone and outcome" of a conversation on "the specifics of this complex issue."
Some Biden officials feel the State Department dragged its feet for years before setting up regional processing centers to allow more migrants to apply for protection in the US ahead of the border, the outlet said. A department rep rejected this claim.
A range of ideologies among Democratic leaders has also seemingly slowed decision-making, according to the report.
© ZUMAPRESS.comSome current and former Biden staffers also claim that many people in the administration believe Vice President Kamala Harris has failed to help with the crisis.
Comment: Ya think?
Sherwood-Randall — who reportedly requested a memo early on in her tenure explaining the difference between refugees and asylum seekers — has advocated for tougher enforcement of migration policies than others, who have pushed for reform and the expansion of legal pathways for migrants to stay in the US.
Internal indecisiveness and constant turnover on the White House's immigration team have led to contradictory steps taken by Biden's team as they flail trying to handle the thousands of asylum seekers inundating the border, according to sources.
The administration's uncertainty over the hot-button issue was evident when the Biden administration halted former President Donald Trump's "Remain in Mexico" program but continued Title 42, which allows for the rapid expulsion of immigrants.
"Remain in Mexico" involves an arrangement in which asylum seekers stay in Mexico while their court cases play out in the US.
Biden then also expanded temporary protections for Venezuelans in the US — weeks before announcing plans to deport Venezuelan migrants for the first time in years.
When a makeshift camp was erected along the US side of the Rio Grande in September 2021 — the start of what would become thousands of migrants taking shelter at the border — staffers knew it was "a moment where people were gonna get hurt," a former administration official told the outlet.
That day, which two former administration officials called the worst day of their jobs, led to ex-ICE official Jason Houser making several profanity-laced calls to the White House and DHS officials, sources said.
© Eric Gay/Associated Pressexas Gov. Greg Abbott, seated center, is surrounded by fellow governors and members of the media during a news conference along the Rio Grande to discuss Operation Lone Star and border concerns, Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024, in Eagle Pass, Texas.
The program, approved last year, has sent a soaring number of undocumented migrants into Florida.
White House spokesman Andrew Bates told Axios that Biden is proud of his team's work to solve the "unprecedented challenges" that go along with the border crisis.
"President Biden is proud that his team has worked well together as they work to resolve unprecedented challenges, and as congressional Republicans continue to choose politics over securing our border," Bates said.
Who’s on First, What’s on second [Link]
Ah yes there’s that scape-GOAT manifesting itself again. To those adept enough you know bravo Sierra when you hear/see/feel it.
Gotta love Myorakas’s predictable scape-GOAT ideology that he’s not accountable.
“It certainly is a crisis and we don’t bear responsibility for a broken system, and we’re dealing a tremendous amount within that broken system,”
Same ideology was done in WWII as well called it the Adolph Eichmann Defense.
‘’We were just following orders”
The all time scape-GOAT emeritus favorite aka Adolph Eichmann Defense [Link]
Just like the skunk who said after the wind changed directions, oh yea it’s all coming back to me now.
Rene’ Giraud‘s Scape-GOAT memetic theory is very real & true. It’s one of the secrets to & how the EL-ite roll & rule.
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy [Link]
For those critical thinkers who already know how to think outside their indoctrinated boxes & are not intransigent
c. Satan Most liberal contemporary Christians pay little attention to Satan, but Girard wishes to keep its relevance. Girard has little patience for the literal mythological interpretation of Satan as the red, horned creature. According to Girard, the concept of Satan and the Devil most frequently referred to in the gospels is what it etymologically expresses: the opponent, the accuser. And, in this sense, Satan is the scapegoating mechanism itself (or, perhaps more precisely, the accusing process); that is, the psychological processes in which human beings are caught up by the lynching mob, and eventually succumb to its influence and participate in the collective violence against the scapegoat.Likewise, the Holy Spirit in Girard’s interpretation is the reverse of Satan. Again, Girard recurs to etymology: the Paraclete etymologically refers to the spirit of defense. Thus, Satan accuses victims, and the Paraclete mercifully defends victims. Thus, the Holy Spirit is understood by Girard as the overturning of the old scapegoating practices.