Several weeks ago, Vice-President Kamala Harris was tapped to manage the unfolding illegal-migrant catastrophe on our southern border. Thus far–due, she sometimes claims, to vague “Covid issues”–she hasn’t gone anywhere near the border and appears to have embraced the role of non-manager of a non-crisis. Covid issues have not prevented her, of course, from jetting about the country in a thinly disguised early presidential campaign, but, then, first things first.
In the meantime, the catastrophe continues to unfold, with 172,000 illegals apprehended in March alone and the season hasn’t gotten cranked up yet. We could be looking at a million in May.
Today we learn, however, that Ms. Harris will at least have a (remote) discussion with Mexican President Lopez Obrador on May 7, where the subject of “migration” might come up. Migration won’t be the major topic on the agenda, though. The main subject of the call will be tree planting.
It seems that the Mexican president has a pet project he calls Sembrando Vida (Planting Life), whose aim is to plant a billion fruit and timber trees in Mexico. With 700,000 such trees in the ground so far, Lopez Obrador has at least gotten started, but he wants more. News agencies are saying he’ll pitch to Harris a proposal to increase the goal to three billion and expand the program to Honduras and Guatemala. This is supposed, within a generation or two at least, to combat global warming and to somehow provide sufficient reason for Central Americans to stay home attending their trees.
Oh, and the President would like the United States to pay for it, if Harris doesn’t mind.
We’re sure she won’t, just so long as she and her cronies get richer. Besides, what better way to get at the “root” of the migrant problem than planting trees, right? Heh-heh. Old Joe will like that one.
Don’t get us wrong. We’re as fond of trees and the environment as the next guy, but is this an efficient way to deal with potentially millions of third-world migrants streaming north and clamoring to get in?
And besides, if the environment is so high on the administration’s priority list, how about doing something about the trash dump the migrants are turning our southwestern desert into? Maybe in some future year, after all the “Covid issues” have disappeared, Harris can swing by sites like this to have a look:
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