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2024-10-03 11:16:42 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: A23B88F2FE03C9984C60D8B0BC203A62A22597684D460E966CCAD48BFD97DDED
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NNN. The GOP and media made Kamala's false “Border Czar” label. https://www.axios.com/2024/07/24/kamala-harris-border-czar-immigratin#:~:text=The%20announcement%20led%20to%20near%2Dimmediate%20confusion%20in%20the%20media%20and%20in%20the%20White%20House%20over%20how%20involved%20Harris%20would%20be%2C%20with%20Republicans%20and%20some%20news%20outlets%2C%20including%20Axios%2C%20giving%20Harris%20the%20unofficial%20monicker%20of%20%22border%20czar https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-resolution/1371/text#:~:text=President%20Biden%20tasked%20Vice%20President%20Kamala%20Harris%20with%20working%20to%20address%20illegal%20immigration%20into%20the%20United%20States%2C%20including%20%E2%80%9Croot%20causes%E2%80%9D%2C%20and%20came%20to%20be%20known%20colloquially%20as%20the%20Biden%20administration%E2%80%99s%20%E2%80%9Cborder%20czar Kamala leads the Root Causes Strategy to stem MIGRATION TO the southern border. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/03/24/remarks-by-president-biden-and-vice-president-harris-in-a-meeting-on-immigration/#:~:text=I%E2%80%99ve%20asked%20her%2C%20the%20VP%2C%20today%20%E2%80%94%20because%20she%E2%80%99s%20the%20most%20qualified%20person%20to%20do%20it%20%E2%80%94%20to%20lead%20our%20efforts%20with%20Mexico%20and%20the%20Northern%20Triangle%20and%20the%20countries%20that%20help%20%E2%80%94%20are%20going%20to%20need%20help%20in%20stemming%20the%20movement%20of%20so%20many%20folks%2C%20stemming%20the%20migration%20to%20our%20southern%20border https://www.factcheck.org/2024/08/trump-tv-ad-repeats-false-border-czar-illegal-immigration-claims/#:~:text=Not%20long%20after,at%20the%20border https://www.reuters.com/world/us/republicans-call-harris-failed-border-czar-truth-is-more-complicated-2024-07-30/#:~:text=Harris%20was%20never%20given%20the%20portfolio%20of%20border%20czar%2C%20said%20Alan%20Bersin%2C%20who%20embraced%20the%20label%20as%20a%20special%20representative%20for%20border%20affairs%20under%20Presidents%20Barack%20Obama%20and%20Bill%20Clinton.%20%22This%20was%20not%20the%20job%20assigned%20to%20VP%20Harris%2C%22%20he%20said https://www.wgal.com/article/fact-check-of-ad-claiming-vice-president-kamala-harris-is-border-czar/61879571#:~:text=In%20March%202021,a%20false%20claim https://www.factcheck.org/2024/07/night-3-of-the-republican-national-convention/#:~:text=Harris%20was%20not,and%20international%20organizations https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/01/politics/fact-check-vance-walz-debate/index.html#:~:text=Harris%20was%20never%20made,to%20the%20United%20States DHS Secretary Mayorkas fills the border czar role, as he is in charge of immigration *AT* the border. https://www.factcheck.org/2024/07/factchecking-vances-attacks-on-harris/#:~:text=In%202021%2C%20Biden,secure%20the%20border https://19thnews.org/2024/08/border-czar-kamala-harris-immigration-fact-check/#:~:text=in%20a%20statement.-,But%20Biden%20didn%E2%80%99t%20put%20Harris%20in%20charge%20of%20overseeing%20border%20security,border%20%E2%80%9Chas%20always%20been%E2%80%9D%20the%20Homeland%20Security%20secretary%E2%80%99s%20role%2C%20Mittelstadt%20said https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jul/24/republican-national-committee-republican/border-czar-kamala-harris-assigned-to-tackle-immig/#:~:text=But%20Biden%20didn%E2%80%99t,role%2C%20Mittelstadt%20said https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fact-check-vp-debate-2024/#:~:text=Vice%20President%20Kamala,and%20Border%20Protection
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