During the violent social justice upheavals of 2019-2020, Democratic primary candidate for President Sen. Kamala Harris told America exactly where she stood on illegal border immigration, no matter how she might spin it now that she is the Democratic Party's presumptive nominee for president.
Taking Up the Extremist Cudgel Just one week after ICE agents killed van Spronsen and found his manifesto demanding an end to corporate profiteering from private detention centers and their human suffering, Sen. Harris all but rewarded the attack with a tweet that mainstreamed the terrorist demand: During a June 2019 televised primary debate, she reiterated that "I will get rid of the private detention centers." Harris was always at the forefront of Democratic primary contenders adopting the extreme immigration policy demands of a violent progressive movement high on the smoke of anti-police BLM arson, antifa attacks on Trump supporters, and Occupy ICE campfires.
Harris began messaging as her own the most fringe ideas about immigration and the border ever heard on the main American public square.
Yes on "Abolish ICE" - and Immigration Law Enforcement with It Harris went full throttle with the narrative that ICE agents she may one day lead were indeed the racist thugs everyone was saying they were.
"Certain communities saw ICE as comparable to the Ku Klux Klan for administering its power in a way that is causing fear and intimidation, particularly among immigrants and specifically among immigrants coming from Mexico and Central America," Harris accused during a Senate confirmation hearing of Trump's nominee to lead ICE, Ronald Vitiello.
Then-Sen. Harris responded on MSNBC in 2019 to a question about abolishing ICE 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".
In 2015, while serving as California's Attorney General, Harris told the CBS affiliate 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 a felony on subsequent violations.
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