Comments by "girl from the bronx by way of el barrio" (@girlfromthebronxbywayofelb7288) on "CBS Evening News" channel.

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  14.  @lillyCfields  Regarding national debt, the Clinton administration ended with a surplus. Bush ballooned the budget with a tax cut instead of using the surplus to make social security viable again. Then the great recession of 2008. Then Obama fixes the recession and the economy is growing again. The pumpkin headed grifter arrives and balloons the budget with a tax cut. It just seems to be that one party has been creating the deficit problems. Please remember Reagan presided over intense inflation for almost his entire presidency. The Monroe doctrine indicates that we take responsibility for our hemisphere. It is true that the USA is the wealthiest nation in our hemisphere. If not us, then who? Guatemala? Maybe it's time to develop strategies for our hemisphere, in concert with our neighboring nations. But it will be clear to everyone that the larger nations should take the lead. "The border is closed" is not a strategy; it was barely a temporary tactic for COVID. Closing the border, whatever that means in practice, also does not work because international law protects refugees. Clearly there are multiple crises in our hemisphere that are creating waves of refugees arriving at our border. In the 1880s many international events resulted in large waves of desperate immigrants arriving in our port cities, and those cities stretched with the influx of millions and millions of people. Now the challenge is at the southern border. Now it's time for those governors and mayors to meet the moment like others met the moment in the 1880s. Unless you are a member of a native American nation, you and your ancestors benefited from the fact that the USA has always been a nation of refugees and immigrants.
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