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

If Kamala Harris becomes president, the border would become nothing more than 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’. There are two sources that offer a detailed look at her likely approach to immigration issues, freely available to anyone who cares to look. The first are the bills related to immigration enforcement that Harris herself wrote or co-sponsored during her four years in the Senate. There’s no need to read between the lines here, nor can these be dismissed as off-the-cuff comments pandering to the audience du jour.If Harris’ “values” haven’t changed, as she insists, her legislation offers a detailed outline of how she would put those values into practice. And, hoo boy, is it radical. Harris’ bills would have made it harder for the DHS to detain illegal aliens, handcuffed Immigration and Customs Enforcement and prevented it from enforcing immigration law, facilitated asylum fraud, as well as prohibited the use of programs successfully employed under the Trump administration. A few examples.At the border, her Immigration Enforcement Moratorium Act would have required the DHS to release, and give a work permit to, every illegal immigrant caught at the border during a public health emergency, with only very narrow exceptions. Detention is the only sure way to make sure illegal immigrants actually show up for hearings and leave when ordered to do so. And yet Harris — in her DONE law, or Detention Oversight, Not Expansion Act — sought to cut the number of detention beds, end mandatory detention, prohibit the detention of minors even if they’re criminals, and make it almost impossible to detain any border-infiltrator with minor children. Her legislation would also have prohibited the detention — or even the use of an ankle monitor! — for any illegal immigrant who is a member of a “vulnerable population,” inclu...