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Democrats’ Hard-Line Evolution on Immigration

September 27, 2024 at 10:16 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“On her first trip to the southern border as the Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris delivered one of her party’s toughest speeches on immigration and border policy in a generation. Even as she did, she tried to paint former President Donald Trump as a feckless chaos agent without the ability to deliver the hard-line results he has promised,” the New York Times reports.

“Ms. Harris vowed to carry on President Biden’s crackdown on asylum and to impose order on the southern border, demonstrating how much the politics of immigration have shifted for Democrats. Just one presidential cycle ago, Ms. Harris and most other candidates in the party’s primary race had promised to decriminalize illegal border crossings.”

CNN: Harris vows to resurrect bipartisan border bill Trump opposed.

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