The reinvention of Kamala Harris continues…
According to an Axios report, the Kamala Harris campaign is attempting to distance candidate Harris from some of her previous far-left immigration policy positions — specifically, her promise to use executive actions to grant a pathway to citizenship for more than 2 million “Dreamers.”
“Every day in the life of a Dreamer who fears deportation is a long day,” Harris said back in 2019. “Dreamers cannot afford to sit around and wait for Congress to get its act together. Their lives are on the line.”
But now, Harris is …quiet on the issue. Asked this week whether she’d take those same executive actions, her campaign declined to answer.
Spokesperson Ian Sams said: “The vice president has fought for Dreamers throughout her career and is proud of the actions taken under her and President Biden to expand protections for them, including the executive action President Biden took this year, which she supported.”
From Axios:
State of play: Harris proposed putting Dreamers on a path to a green card by, among other things, granting work authorizations, using certain parole powers and waiving rules barring people from returning to the U.S. if they leave to apply for a green card in a U.S. consulate abroad.
In June, Biden used the same “parole in place” power to try to give people married to U.S. citizens a path to citizenship if they had been in the country for 10 years. It’s being challenged in court.
In 2019, Harris also vowed to expand “deferred action” programs that protect select groups of undocumented immigrants from deportation and prioritize deporting other groups such as those who’ve committed crimes.
Her campaign estimated the plan would protect more than 6 million people from deportation, such as the parents of U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents.
Not surprisingly, the Harris campaign declined to make their candidate available to clarify her current stance on executive actions for Dreamers.
Spokesperson Ian Sams told Axios: “As president, she’ll continue to protect Dreamers while also pushing the bipartisan border deal that will dramatically strengthen border security.”
More over at Axios;
Harris mum on her past pledge for "Dreamers" https://t.co/R0Bv5efUUt
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