Vice President Kamala Harris's co-sponsorship of legislation to protect illegal immigrants from deportation underscores her progressive stance, contributing to her ranking as the most liberal senator during her tenure.
Vice President Kamala Harris co-sponsored legislation aimed at protecting illegal immigrants from deportation, highlighting her progressive stance as a senator. This support contributed to non-partisan watchdog groups ranking Harris as the most liberal senator during her tenure.
In 2019, Harris backed a bill introduced by Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) to repeal Executive Order 13768 from the Trump administration. According to Congress.gov, this executive order directed the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to prioritize the removal of certain criminal aliens and authorized the Department of Justice and DHS to withhold federal grants from sanctuary jurisdictions that violated immigration enforcement laws.
Harris has a history of advocating for lenient immigration policies and law enforcement reforms, including:
- Supporting taxpayer-funded coverage for illegal immigrants
- Backing defunding the police
- Comparing ICE to the KKK
- Pushing to undo Trump-era border security measures, with 94 executive actions in the first 100 days of the Biden administration
- Supporting the decriminalization of illegal border crossings
- Stating she wouldn’t treat illegal aliens as criminals
- Calling for ICE to be rebuilt from scratch
- Arguing that temporarily closing the border violated federal law
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