Kamala Harris’ previous proposals show her true intentions with ICE and the border

If Kamala Harris became president, the border would only be an imaginary line, the world would be allowed to apply for asylum and hardly anyone would be deported.

Don’t take my word for it, take Kamala Harris’s word for it.

There are two sources that provide an in-depth look at their likely approach to immigration issues and are freely available to anyone who cares to take a look.

The first are the immigration enforcement bills that Harris herself authored or co-sponsored during her four years in the Senate.

There is no need to read between the lines here, nor can these comments be dismissed as off-the-cuff comments designed to serve the audience of the day.

If Harris’ “values” have not changed, as she points out, her legislation provides a detailed overview of how she would put those values ​​into practice.

And, boy, is that radical.

Exhausted enforcement

Harris’ bills would have made it harder for DHS to detain illegal immigrants, handcuffed Immigration and Customs Enforcement and prevented it from enforcing immigration law, made asylum fraud easier, and banned the use of programs that were used successfully under the Trump administration .

A few examples. At the border, their Immigration Enforcement Moratorium Act would have required DHS to release and grant work authorization to any illegal immigrant caught at the border during a public health emergency, with very few exceptions.

Detention is the only sure way to ensure that illegal immigrants actually show up for hearings and leave the country when asked to do so.

And yet Harris tried – in her DONE Act (Detention Oversight, Not Expansion Act) – to reduce the number of detention beds, eliminate mandatory detention, ban the detention of minors, even if they are criminals, and the incarceration of minors almost impossible to make cross-border commuters with underage children.

Their legislation would also have banned incarceration – or even the use of an ankle monitor! – for any illegal immigrant who belongs to a “vulnerable population,” including anyone who is seeking asylum, or is over 65 years old, or is the breadwinner of the family, or claims to be gay or transgender, or literally any other Group classified as “at risk” the DHS Secretary.

Harris’ bills would also have gone a long way toward effectively abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

One of them, the Protecting Sensitive Locations Act, aimed to create “ICE-free zones.”

ICE uses its discretion to decide whether or not to arrest an illegal alien at a church or school, for example – such judgments are normal police procedure.

But Harris wanted to completely exclude ICE from any enforcement actions within 1,000 feet of hospitals, schools, churches, courthouses, mourning protests and even school field trips.

This would have put virtually all illegal immigrants beyond the reach of the law, unless they happen to be in the middle of the woods of northern Maine or the Nevada desert.

WH “United Agenda”

Harris’ legislative history is full of this kind of madness, but there is an even more immediate part of her immigration plans.

Twice a year, the current government publishes a summary of the planned regulations.

The latest version of the so-called “Unified Agenda” was issued in August by the government, of which Harris is the second largest member.

They would almost certainly be implemented if Harris were promoted to the No. 1 spot.

These regulatory changes are not as radical as Harris’ proposed legislation simply because the executive branch cannot change the law itself.

But unlike the proposed bills, these rules are all but certain to come into force, and they all point in the same direction – a loosening of borders.

One of the proposed regulatory changes would expand the U visa amnesty program for victims or witnesses of illegal crimes.

This program is already a scandal as people stage fake crimes to qualify.

Rather than tightening the program, the new rules that would take effect under a Harris-Walz administration would likely expand eligibility and, most importantly, end the dangerous Biden-Harris practice of issuing work permits just for applying. codify and thus guarantee more and more “victims” of crimes and “witnesses”.

Other changes to the Harris Rules are planned: making it more difficult for ICE agents to investigate illegal immigrants; relaxing naturalization standards; and make it easier for people who have persecuted others abroad to get asylum.

Kamala Harris remained tight-lipped when it came to revealing details about what she would do if promoted to the Oval Office. However, we don’t have to speculate about her intentions – she has a clear agenda on immigration. To call it extreme would be an understatement.

Mark Krikorian is executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies.