(EFE).- United States President Joe Biden and the Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday focused on addressing the pandemic challenges faced by small business owners of minority communities, as controversy grew over Biden’s management of the situation at the Mexico border.
Biden began his tour in Pennsylvania to promote the recently approved $1.9 trillion economic rescue plan, while Harris completed the second stop on her own route in Denver, Colorado, to promote the stimulus package, which began Monday in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Both focused on small businesses, with Biden visiting Smith Flooring, run by a Black couple in Chester, Pennsylvania, while Harris went to an Argentinian-run restaurant in Denver called Maria Empanada.
“The hardest hit are people in the minority communities,” said Biden, adding that people from Latino and Black communities contract and die of Covid-19 at rates “significantly higher” than caucasians.
Harris stressed the need to take into account racial disparities during her trip to Denver, where she visited the empanada restaurant of Lorena Cantarovici, an Argentinian immigrant who had to lay off her employees when the pandemic began.
Cantarovici said she has been able to rehire 80 percent of her staff thanks to the loans included in the stimulus package, and the vice president replied that it is companies like hers that empower each community.
The rescue plan recently signed by Biden contains $50 billion to keep small businesses afloat, and the president said that he is expanding the loan program to these types of companies so that it reaches all those who need it.
“More help is on the way, for real,” Biden said.
Delivery of the one-time checks of $1,400 for 85 percent of the country’s taxpayers are expected to start Wednesday, and Biden is confident that it will not only revitalize the economy, but the country’s confidence in his management and that of the Democrats in Congress.
However, the migration crisis on the border with Mexico is taking away attention from Biden’s tour, and the president had to clarify Tuesday that he has no plans to visit the border area soon to oversee the challenge generated by the influx of undocumented minors and families in recent weeks.
“Not at the moment,” Biden responded to a journalist’s question as to whether he plans to visit the border soon.
The president has received some criticism for traveling to promote the stimulus plan, but not to study the situation in person at the border, to which the White House has responded that Biden is focused on “developing solutions.”
According to CBS News, more than 4,200 unaccompanied migrant children remained Sunday in short-term detention facilities of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), including some not suitable to house minors.
Biden earlier this month sent a large delegation of his advisers to visit the border in the state of Texas and has taken several measures, such as mobilizing the Federal Emergency Management Agency for 90 days to serve minors.
However, the White House has resisted describing the situation on the border as a “crisis,” which the Republican opposition does, although it recognizes the seriousness of the problem.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas warned in a statement Tuesday that “we are on pace to encounter more individuals on the southwest border than we have in the last 20 years.” EFE
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When will oppressed and tax ripped off WHITE Americans start using our Constitutional laws in suing this administration for prejudice and racial discrimination against THEM? Just how do you allow white Americans to be discriminated in 1.9Trillion dollar bills that favor people of color?,,,that should be sued up to the Supreme court invalidating their entire 1.9 Billion dollar rip off bill of redistribution of American wealth based not by merit, but by skin color alone. Where are our courts to defend what is soon to be the white American minority, once the Racially financially rewarded American traitor President Biden floods America in unvetted uncontrolled borders to increase his own wealth and infamy, at the cost of fellow now racially defunded discriminated against successful white Americans, now labeled people of privilege instead of people of prosperity creation and success. The deterioration of American success can only follow in their wake to the point that the immediate gratifications rewarded people of color, will suffer even more greatly when the wealth producers are destroyed, following Biden’s creation of the Socialist States of America, that he now disunites in haste. You cannot enrich Colored America by destroying the other productive half of the nation. Only a fool would try.
WITH how buggered up our courts are. WHAT MAKES YOU think even if we TRIED to use the laws, the courts would be on our side???
Racism if I have ever heard. Unifying the population. Come on man?????
“The hardest hit are people in the minority communities,” said Biden, adding that people from Latino and Black communities contract and die of Covid-19 at rates “significantly higher” than caucasians”. Yep, the “Whites” are responsible for using the covid virus to kill blacks and Latinos, right Joe??? Secondly, does one notice in the above quote that “black” is capitalized but “caucasians” is not capitalized. Thirdly, according to Joe and the Democrat communists, only black and Latino business owners should get financial help, due to covid. Yep, we “Whites” are all “White Supremacists”, so the “White” business people should be spit on by the Democrat communists and get no aid! “Equity” instead of “equality” under our Constitution.
We all have Suffered during the Pandemic. But the democrats only care about the 13% and criminals. Whites need not apply.
MAYBE IF blacks as a whole, were not SO FAT, compared to whites, and had HEALTHIER LIFESTYLES< they wouldn't be dying from the virus MORE THAN WHITES are…
as to the problem on the border.
The States should put their NATIONAL GUARD ON THE BORDER.
station the State Law Enforcement to take control of the illegals and follow Sheriff Joe Arpios method of dealing with them.
Have the County Sheriffs from the entire State to ARREST AND DETAIN any federal ‘law enforcement’ that seeks to INTERFERE WITH STATE LAW ENFORCEMENT.
Under US CODE it is a FELONY to enforce an Unconstitutional order, and it’s WAY PAST TIME the federal officers LEARNED THAT HARSH REALITY!
Hire the wall contractors to finish the wall, and BILL THE OTHER CONTIGUOUS STATES.
ALL STATES WITHHOLD ALL TAX PAYMENTS to the federal government until the expenses are covered.
IF i lived in Texas, i’d certainly PAY TO HELP MY OWN STATE finish that wall off.. BETTER YET< Take those river dredgers/mine diggers, and DITCH THE ENTIRE length.. 200 meters deep, 100ft wide!
THEN PUT UP ARMED GUN TOWERS, with orders to shoot to kill all who approach…
How about high voltage currents in the river to stop those attempting to cross added to this plan?
Why waste power. JUST fill it with Pirannah!!
this is what a banna republic looks like.
Are you going to be visiting the border? “Not at the moment,” Biden responded, it’s a crisis down there!!
Discrimination in favor of minority people is discrimination against majority people. Instead there MUST be equality.
Reverse racism IS racism.
The Biden-Harris plan is racism.