Last week CNN’s KFile had a story pointing out just how opposed Kamala Harris was to a border wall before recently publishing a 30-second ad featuring the border wall. It was impossible to look at her past criticism and square it with the tough-on-immigration image being presented in the video.
This week the KFile is back with another deep dive into the policy positions Harris held prior to her current run for office. (Hat tip to my colleague David who spotted this before I did.) Back in 2019, Harris filled out an ACLU questionnaire in which she professed herself a fan of all manner of far-left policies, but once again her position on immigration seems most at odds with the one she is promoting now.
When asked about criminal justice reform on the questionnaire, she wrote she would end immigration detention facilities (along with private prisons). Harris also said she supported decreasing funding for ICE.
“Our immigrant detention system is out of control, and I believe we must end the unfair incarceration of thousands of individuals, families and children,” Harris wrote. “I was one of the first Senators after President Trump was elected to advocate for a decrease in funding to ICE.”
The push to abolish ICE was a far left campaign that really got started in 2018 on the far left. This sentiment was at its peak in mid-2019 when Willem Van Spronsen showed up at an ICE detention center in Tacoma, Washington with a gun and a bunch of Molotov cocktails. Van Spronsen was fatally shot by police.
Harris also pledged to end the use of ICE detainers which allow the group to pick up criminals from a jail rather than trying to find them in neighborhoods. We have one recent example from New York City of how failing to honor these requests can leave the door open for criminals to carry out additional crimes. […]
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