(DailyEmailNews.com) – Reminding voters of who the Democrat nominee really is, Kamala Harris had previously committed to several progressive policies in a 2019 ACLU questionnaire when she was running for president.
Harris’ radical agenda included taxpayer-funded gender-transition surgeries for detained immigrants and federal prisoners, defunding Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), ending immigrant detention and decriminalizing federal drug possession for personal use.
This background has resurfaced as Harris recently unveiled a series of policy proposals on her campaign website.
Her priorities now include implementing the first federal ban on corporate price gouging on groceries and a bill to protect abortions nationwide.
However, Harris has faced criticism from Republicans for flip-flopping on her stances this election cycle, particularly regarding border policies.
Last month, Axios reported that Harris now supports the border wall, a project she opposed during the Trump administration, though this is not mentioned on her campaign’s webpage.
Harris has pledged to revive and sign a bipartisan border security bill that Senate Republicans previously blocked.
Her approach to immigration also seems to have shifted from her earlier responses to the ACLU.
In 2019, Harris said she would “slash detention by at least 50%” and stop funding for new detention facilities under her Detention Oversight Not Expansion (DONE) Act.
She also promised to end the use of ICE detainers and focus enforcement on public safety rather than family separation, requiring ICE to obtain a warrant to use detainers.
However, as San Francisco’s district attorney and later as California’s attorney general, Harris enforced policies like handing over minors arrested for suspected felonies to federal authorities and targeted criminal gangs.
She also initially defended California’s Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation against providing gender-reassignment surgeries to transgender inmates.
But in 2019, Harris affirmed her support for full treatment for transgender and nonbinary individuals under state care, including necessary surgeries.
Although Harris backed the decriminalization of drug possession by supporting the legalization of federal marijuana, her prosecutorial record was sharply criticized by then-Representative Tulsi Gabbard during a Democratic primary debate in 2019.
Gabbard reminded Harris that she sent people to jail for marijuana violations, blocked evidence in a death row case, kept inmates beyond their sentences for labor and supported a cash bail system that adversely affected the poor.
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