Brutal new reporting from @axios in article titled “How Biden Botched the Border”.

[excalibur]

Wow! We never get this sort of leak stuff from Democrat administrations, usually because the MSM will just bury any leaks to protect a Democrat.

Sounds like several factions in Biden's White House working at opposite ends. One is to blame anyone but Joe, the other is trying to grease the skids o move Joe out. Maybe even a Kamala faction trying to shoehorn her in.

NEW: Brutal new reporting from @axios
in article titled “How Biden Botched the Border”.

• Biden exploded w/ rage at his team aboard AF1 on the way to border last year.
• Susan Rice called HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra a “bitch ass”& “idiot”.
• VP Harris’ team made it clear her responsibilities “began and ended” w/ root causes in just the 3 Northern Triangle counties & Mexico, w/ a former Biden admin official saying Harris has been “at best, ineffective”.
• Mayorkas disagreed with Biden’s 100 day halt on deportations.
• Homeland Security adviser Liz Sherwood-Randall displayed inexperience, asked for a memo explaining the difference between refugees & asylum seekers.
• Biden admin has listened to “vocal immigration advocates outside the administration”.
• “The White House generally didn't want to talk publicly about immigration or the border for much of Biden's first three years, feeling it would draw attention to a political vulnerability.”
• “Publicly, the White House also initially downplayed jumps in illegal border crossings as normal "ebbs and flows" — even as some internally pushed to acknowledge that the problem was significant.”

The article highlights a combination of infighting, incompetence, and indifference regarding the administration’s handling of the border over the last 3 years. ​

https://axios.com/2024/02/12/how-biden-botched-border

 

[JoeB131]

Um, yeah, okay. The same article also said this.


Reality check: Much of the current crisis is rooted in factors Biden's team has had little control over — including unprecedented global calamities that have pushed millions of migrants to the U.S., decades of congressional inaction, and the state of key agencies after the Trump administration.

What they're saying: "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," White House spokesperson Andrew Bates told Axios.

https://www.axios.com/2024/02/12/how-biden-botched-border