Migrants, Botteri: “That ‘don’t come’ trap for Kamala Harris, now her political future is at stake”

“Kamala Harris is young, very strong and popular. Having put her on such a difficult, controversial and risky dossier as the immigration one can be read in two ways: or Biden somehow wanted to test her before the eyes of the country, with an act of trust to prepare her in the eyes of the Americans as the possible next president, or – it is the theory of someone worse – it may also have been a way to cheat her “. This is the analysis of Giovanna Botteri who, in a telephone connection from Beijing, comments with the Adnkronos on the utterances of the vice president of the United States that are causing the world to discuss. “What is certain – explains the Rai correspondent in China – is that the most difficult and controversial dossier has been placed in her hands, and she will pay for it. At the first important exit, all her diplomatic work, all her effort, what she has built so far has been buried by those two damned words, ‘don’t come, don’t come’. And this is the first trap she fell into, and the first risk she faced and which now necessarily pays off. ” For the journalist, it is clear that Harris “is gambling her political future on this affair, and it is also clear that her release was in candid quotes”. of Harris are statements contrary to what has always been ‘left’ politics, as opposed to that of Donald Trump, Botteri points out: “It is not a question of right or left, the great controversy with Trump was in the way in which migrants were treated: families divided, children locked in cages – he stresses – It was evident that the Democrats would not go to Ecuador and Guatemala to say ‘come, we welcome you with open arms’. It is something that is unthinkable: she goes to establish contact with the countries of origin, to go to the origin and prevent people from being massacred during the journey, trafficking in human beings and so on “. ‘The problem is how she handled the situation, now for her the stra from it is all uphill ‘The problem therefore “it is not you who should be on the left and who said a sentence on the right, but it is how you handled the situation. His future is playing a little bit. You had the most difficult dossier because the immigration issue is very difficult – Botteri analyzes – I remember a plan made on immigration by President George W. Bush and Edward Kennedy, therefore absolutely transversal, with which they tried to heal the situation of 12 million immigrants who had lived in the US for a lifetime: well, it did not pass “. In conclusion,” this is a divisive dossier, on which you cannot get a majority, on which there are conflicting positions and you, in her first major national politics outing, she fell on that ‘don’t come, don’t come’. Now for her the road is all uphill “. (By Ilaria Floris)