Remember, her values have not changed.
Then-Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) chanted “Down, down with deportation” during a Los Angeles parade in January 2018, resurfaced video shows, as the Democratic presidential nominee seeks to distance herself from the ongoing border crisis.
Harris, now 59, served as grand marshal of the 33rd annual Kingdom Day Parade, meant to celebrate the legacy of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. — but was caught on tape repeating the far-left slogan in footage first obtained by the Daily Mail.
“Up, up with education. Down, down with deportation!” President Biden’s future vice president and border czar cheered as she smiled and pumped her fist, with husband Doug Emhoff and stepdaughter Ella Emhoff in tow.
The Harris campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Since winning the 2024 nomination, Harris has backed off many open-borders policies she once supported as both a senator and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate.
That includes past statements in favor of closing down private migrant detention centers used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement — an agency she also suggested abolishing — and spending taxpayer dollars on gender reassignment surgeries for migrants.
Another policy stance she’s distancing from is providing up to 2 million so-called “Dreamers,” children brought to the US illegally and covered under the Obama administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, a pathway to citizenship, Axios reported Monday.
“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,” Harris campaign spokesman Ian Sams told the outlet in a statement, without committing to any further action.
Harris’ 2020 campaign also promised to expand DACA and provide as many as 6 million immigrants with protection against deportation by prioritizing the removal of criminal migrants instead.
Harris has yet to address many of the flip-flops. When asked about immigration in interviews, she references being a prosecutor in the “border state” of California, both as the state’s attorney general and San Francisco DA. She also promises to sign a bipartisan spending bill that failed to pass the Senate earlier this year.
Biden tapped the veep in March 2021 to address the “root causes” of mass migration from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
Since both took office, a record-setting number of migrants have been apprehended each year trying to enter the US, most of whom are later processed and released into the country.
Those rates have also been accompanied by a decrease in the deportation of migrants charged with crimes.
The VP has spoken out against at least one of former President Donald Trump’s campaign pledges, to deport up to 20 million illegal migrants — despite polls finding the solution is backed by majorities of Americans as well as registered Hispanic voters.
In the resurfaced 2018 parade video footage, Harris is also standing alongside supporters of the Hollywood-backed Time’s Up movement against workplace sexual harassment — including since-disgraced hate crime hoaxster Jussie Smollett.
The former “Empire” star was found guilty in 2019 of staging an elaborate hate crime against himself by paying off two Nigerian Americans to “jump” him while disguised as Trump supporters in Chicago.
Brothers Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo donned red Make America Great Again hats to douse Smollett in bleach and wrap a noose around his neck in exchange for a $3,500 payment
Harris has never removed her January 2019 Twitter post declaring the phony crime was an “attempted modern day lynching” — despite posting a month later that she was “sad, frustrated, and disappointed” about Smollett making the whole thing up.
