Pinning down Vice President Kamala Harris on any substantive policy matters has been impossible since she helped shove President Joe Biden out of the presidential race . She refuses to answer questions, and her staff is, at best, cryptic in what little information it releases.
For example, when asked if Harris still supports her 2019 position that illegally crossing the border be decriminalized, an unidentified campaign official told Axios, “Unauthorized border crossings are illegal.”
But this is just a statement of current law. It doesn’t tell us what Harris believes, if anything, about whether unauthorized border crossings should continue to be illegal or if she will prosecute migrants who break the law. We still don’t know where Harris stands on decriminalizing illegal immigration.
As much as Democrats may wish otherwise, Harris did not fall out of a coconut tree without a record. There are 20 years of factual evidence about how she deals with illegal immigrants, and voters should look at them. It will give an accurate and disturbing picture of Harris's ideas on immigration.
She first won elected office in 2003 when she became San Francisco’s 27th District Attorney. San Francisco had been a sanctuary city for decades before then, and Harris continued a policy of not cooperating with federal immigration officials on crimes committed by illegal immigrants.
In 2004, Harris’s first year on the job, Edwin Ramos, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, assaulted a pregnant woman, was convicted of attempted robbery, and served six months in prison before being released. At no point did Harris contact Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials about Ramos’s crime or his illegal status.
Four years later, Ramos was arrested again, this time because a passenger in Ramos’s car, who was a gang member like Ramos, tried to dispose of a gun connected to a double homicide. Harris failed to prosecute Ramos since it could not be proven that he knew his passenger had the gun. But she could have held Ramos in detention until ICE came to deport him. Instead, her office informed ICE about Ramos two hours after it had let him go. It does not seem a coincidence. Three months after Harris let Ramos walk free, he killed a father and two sons in a road rage incident.
Harris’s experience helping illegal immigrants escape justice doesn’t end there. As attorney general, she took San Francisco’s once radical sanctuary policies statewide, issuing a bulletin to all California law enforcement agencies to clarify that “criminal justice policy should not be conflated with national immigration policy.”
She later went on to write the state’s brief in U.S. vs. Texas, in which she argued in favor of former President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Parents of Americans program. That policy was found to be illegal by the 5th Circuit, and the Supreme Court voted to leave that ruling in place.
Upon coming to the Senate, Harris made immigration her signature platform, pledging to be the “anti-Jeff Sessions” of the Senate. To that end, she sought to cut funding for Border Patrol detention centers at the border and defund ICE’s internal deportation efforts .
Harris is now running ads on television that claim she “will hire thousands more border agents” if elected. But if the policy those agents enforce is the swift processing of illegal migrants into the country, as seems to be what Harris will want, our nation’s border crisis will only get worse.
We do not need to hear another word from Harris about what her border policies would be as president. We know from her time as district attorney, attorney general, and senator what they would be. Her record shows she has no interest in protecting our nation’s sovereignty by enforcing immigration laws and every interest in letting illegal immigrants go free, including violent offenders.
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There is a reason Border Patrol agents tell the Washington Examiner, “We are screwed as a country if she becomes president. The border will never close.”
The agents are right. Biden has been a disaster for border security, and Harris would be worse.
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