She doesn't even think illegal immigration is a crime
Kamala Harris won’t fix Biden’s open border — she doesn’t even think illegal immigration is a crime
https://nypost.com/2024/07/23/opinion/kamala-harris-wont-fix-bidens-open-border-she-doesnt-even-think-illegal-immigration-is-a-crime/
Harris told MSNBC in 2019 that the United States should “probably think about starting from scratch” on enforcing immigration laws, while a spokesperson for Harris said the senator was weighing “a complete overhaul of the agency, mission, culture, operations.”share
None of this could be said to be opportunistic, either.
Back in 2015, while serving as California’s attorney general, Harris told KCBS-TV in Los Angeles that “An undocumented immigrant is not a criminal. I know what a criminal looks like who’s committing a crime. An undocumented immigrant is not a criminal.”
In fact, illegally crossing the southern border is a federal misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in prison for a first offense and more time with subsequent violations.
She was one of the candidates who raised a hand at another debate when asked if she supported decriminalizing illegal crossings.
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As vice president, Harris has regularly blamed “root causes” and “climate change” for the vast influx that began right after she and President Biden took office and implemented an extremist vision from the burning streets of blue cities.
Immigration was all so very “complex,” Harris explained during a state visit to Central America to get the strategy up and running.
So complex that Harris’ answer to it is … nothing.
Whatever the Democratic Party nominee might float about her plans for border security over the next four months, American voters who disagree with what she and Biden did at the border should know that, in her case, past definitely is prologue.