Vice President Kamala Harris once sponsored legislation to dismantle the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) ability to detain illegal aliens. The plan would have had more than 20,000 illegal aliens released from the agency’s custody into the United States.
In 2018, Harris joined Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) in sponsoring the Detention Oversight Not Expansion (DONE) Act — a plan to dramatically reshape immigration detention and limit the power Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) currently has to detain illegal aliens.
“ICE’s indiscriminate approach to immigration enforcement continues to sow fear and anxiety in communities across the nation and strict oversight is long overdue,” Harris said in a statement at the time:
It is unconscionable to subject detainees to inhumane conditions that include cases of unchecked sexual abuse, outright medical negligence, lack of access to counsel, and in some cases, even death. It’s time to end the expansion of these facilities that divert these resources to address true public safety threats.
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Among the most radical elements, Harris’s DONE Act would have banned ICE from expanding immigration detention, regardless of illegal immigration levels.
“Kamala Harris has been tight-lipped about her plans to enforce federal immigration laws, but the name of one of this proposal, the DONE Act, is telling,” RJ Hauman, president of the National Immigration Center for Enforcement (NICE), told Breitbart News. “Interior enforcement would in fact be done and nullified if she takes office.” […]
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