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It's a mixed bag - anyone who looked at the border and wanted to do something about it would have started with talking to Mexico, beefing up security, etc.

Right - and if she had been tasked with the general mission of "doing something about the border," she might have done that other stuff.

But she wasn't given the assignment of "do something about the border." Her job was to conduct diplomatic relations to mitigate against the "push factors" present in other countries that prompt migrants to choose to leave. Not to address the border generally, but to address that specific thing.

Credit to them - Republicans, seeing an opportunity to unfairly attack her for failing to do something that she had absolutely no authority to do, went out and did so. And quite effectively, too. But that doesn't make it true

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