Vice President Kamala Harris praised a voter for making “a really important point” and expressing it “so well” after the voter suggested former President Donald Trump would “put anyone that doesn’t look White in camps.”
During a virtual Harris town hall with radio host Charlamagne tha God, a voter called in and asked:
Hi, I’m Bobby from Georgia, and I have a question for Kamala Harris. Could you please respond to Trump’s claim that he’s going to use the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to round up immigrants if he wins the election? This law was last used to put Asian Americans in internment camps during World War II, and I have a sneaking suspicion that if Trump wins, he’s going to use this law to put anyone that doesn’t look White in camps, and I’m scared.
Harris responded, “Yeah, so you’ve hit on a really important point and expressed it, I think so well, which is he is achieving his intended effect, to make you scared. He is running full-time on a campaign that is about instilling fear. Not about hope, not about optimism, not about the future, but about fear, and so this is yet another example.”
She continued:
Look what he did in saying that those legal immigrants in Springfield, Ohio were eating their pets. And by the way, the hypocrisy of it abounds because on the issue of immigration, let’s be clear, some of the most conservative members of the United States Congress, working with others, came up with a border security bill which was the strongest, toughest border security bill in a long, long time.
It would have put 1,500 more border agents at the border. It would have reduced the flow of fentanyl into our country, which is killing people all over our country of every race and background. It would have allowed us to do more work on prosecuting transnational criminal organizations, which I have done in my career.
Trump got word that that bill was afoot, knew it would fix the problem, and told his buddies in Congress to kill the bill, and you know why? Because he would prefer to run on a problem instead of fixing a problem.
Just this week, Bill Maher told Dr. Phil that Trump could start rounding up his critics and sending them to Guantanamo Bay if reelected president in November.
“He’s insane, so he could start sending people to Guantanamo Bay. I don’t put anything past this guy,” he said. “He thinks they’re eating the cats and the dogs, but am I going to worry about it? First of all, I’m not going to worry about it, Phil, because he’s not going to win.”
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow expressed similar fears over being placed in a “camp” by Trump in June.
“What convinces you that these massive camps he’s planning are only for migrants?” she questioned. “So, yes, I’m worried about me — but only as much as I’m worried about all of us.”
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