In a 2019 questionnaire that she filled out for the American Civil Liberties Union when she was running for president, Vice-President Kamala Harris espoused hard-left positions such as decreasing funding for ICE, ending detention for illegal immigrants, funding gender transition surgeries for illegal immigrants and federal prisoners, and even decriminalization of hard drugs.
CNN’s investigative reporter Andrew Kaczynski revealed his findings on the questionnaire, which can be read here, speaking to CNN host Erin Burnett.
“This was a questionnaire that she filled out for the ACLU, and this questionnaire is really an interesting snap shot in time of that 2019 Democratic primary,” Kaczynski stated. “Kamala Harris was trying to get to the left of Bernie Sanders. She was trying to get to the left of Elizabeth Warren and you really see that in a lot of these answers.”
“She said on immigration, she made this open ended pledge the end immigrant detention,” he continued. “She also supported it for federal prisoners. … she also pledged to slash immigration detention by 50 percent, close all family and private facilities and decreased funding for ICE, and then end ICE detainers with local law enforcement.”
In the form, Harris states that gender-transition “treatment is a medical necessity” and that she “will direct all federal agencies responsible for providing essential medical care to deliver transition treatment,” the form shows.
“Let’s take a look at her answer her on drugs,” Kaczynski suggested. “She got asked about this question from the ACLU was since drug use is better addressed as a public health issue through treatment and other programming, will you support the decriminalization at the federal level of all drug possession for personal use? And Harris answers, yes.”
“Now, what would that mean? Will it mean the federal — all drug possession that’s not just marijuana, which she alluded to in her answer to this question, but it also would mean fentanyl, crack, you know, cocaine,” he explained.
Asked for a response, an unnamed Harris campaign adviser said, according to Kaczynski, “The vice president’s positions have been shaped by three years of effective governance as part of the Biden/Harris administration.”
“They declined to CNN to elaborate on what those positions were,” he told Burnett. “Where does she stand on this all, all this questioner today, we don’t know and they won’t say.”
The ACLU told CNN it does not plan to ask Harris to fill out a new questionnaire for the 2024 election.
