Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, has made a promise that should she win the election in November, she will throw hundreds of millions of dollars toward the building of a wall along the southern border, which is a project she formerly slammed current GOP nominee Donald Trump for when he was president, referring to it as “un-American.”
Trump recently referred to Harris as a “copycat” over her essentially ripping off his policy to end taxation on tips for those in service positions. Looks like she’s done it once again with his take on the border crisis. Too bad she has opted to do nothing of the sort while serving in such a high position of influence in Biden’s administration. He himself actually tasked her with solving the border crisis, which she completely failed to do.
As you can imagine, such a statement is not sitting well with liberal voters who believe that taking such a course of action to prevent illegal immigrants from crossing into the country and taking over everything is a blatant form of racism. They’re also unhappy because this is yet another example of Harris flip-flopping on a former progressive position.
via Axios:
Why it matters: It’s the latest example of Harris flip-flopping on her past liberal positions such as supporting Medicare for All and banning fracking — proposals that aides say she now is against. Harris is embracing a more hawkish immigration policy as Donald Trump’s campaign spends tens of millions of dollars attacking her about the border. But she still has significant differences with Trump on immigration, opposing his approach to family separation and his plans for mass deportations.
In her speech to the Democratic National Convention last week, Harris said she would sign the recent bipartisan border security bill— which Trump had ordered his allies to kill, fearing it would help Democrats in the November elections. That bill, negotiated by senators such as James Lankford (R-Okla.) and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), requires hundreds of millions of dollars of unspent funds to be used to continue building a wall on the border. “It requires the Trump border wall,” Lankford told Axios. “It is in the bill itself that it sets the standards that were set during the Trump administration: Here’s where it will be built. Here’s how it has to be built, the height, the type, everything during the Trump construction.”
The vice president’s campaign has come out and responded to the backlash, saying that the border deal is a lot more than just the completion of building a wall and funding for that project, which is only a little bit of what Trump is proposing. The legislation is estimated to spend $650 million on a wall, while Trump’s plan was $18 billion. Murphy has gone on to describe the plan as being a “compromise” and stated it will also include a n umber of other provisions that will set aside cash for asylum attorneys and judges for the currently overburdened immigration system.
Still, Harris’ supporters are not pleased to hear of this flip. And it makes sense when you look at former comments she made about Trump’s attempt to build a wall during his time in office. Back when she announced she would be running for president in 2020, she referred to the wall as a “medieval vanity project” that wouldn’t do anything to prevent transnational gangs from entering the country. Well, her solutions to the problem haven’t done that either. Maybe that’s because she doesn’t have any solutions?
In February 2020, Harris wrote on Facebook that “Trump’s border wall is a complete waste of taxpayer money and won’t make us any safer.” In April 2017, soon after joining the Senate, Harris said the wall was a “stupid use of money. I will block any funding for it.”
One thing we can say for sure is that Trump has managed to draw a whole lot of attention to the issue of immigration and national security, shifting the landscape during his involvement in the political realm.
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