By James Myers, OAN Staff
Tuesday, September 10, 2024 3:51 PM
new Report featured by CNN In 2019, Vice President Kamala Harris said she supported cutting funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations and supported using taxpayer money to pay for gender reassignment surgery for immigrants and prisoners in custody.
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Her responses came from a survey conducted by the American Civil Liberties Union, but went largely unnoticed until a recent report brought it back into the spotlight. CNN.
The investigation also found that Harris also supported decriminalizing drugs at the time, which is ironic because during her time as a California prosecutor, she was responsible for putting many people, primarily people of color, in state prisons and jails for non-violent marijuana-related offenses.
“From a cannabis reform perspective, [Biden] “After Biden selected Harris as his running mate, she just made the worst possible choice,” said Steve DeAngelo, founder of the criminal justice reform group The Last Prisoner Project. “Cannabis advocates should know that Harris took our money and support in her California attorney general race and then did nothing to defend California when the Department of Justice attacked us. And she laughed about it.”
President Trump's 2024 press secretary, Caroline Leavitt, also commented on the recent reports.
“Kamala's support for decriminalizing all drugs will exacerbate this country's drug epidemic and lead to more overdoses, deaths, homelessness and heartbreak,” Leavitt said. “Kamala's plan to fund sex-reassignment surgery for illegal immigrants is completely insane and unfair to American taxpayers,” he added. “Kamala Harris is dangerously liberal.”
But Harris has recently backed away from some progressive policy positions, including her opposition to fracking and her support for electric vehicle mandates, though she has not publicly explained why she changed her stance on some issues.
Furthermore, in an interview on August 29th,NumberThe Vice President said: CNN “The most important and significant thing about my policy views and decisions is that my values have not changed,” Dana Bash said.
Harris became a US senator from California in 2017, according to nul.org. She said she could use executive power “as president” to ensure transgender and non-binary people have access to “all necessary surgical care,” including those in prisons and immigration detention centers.
“I support policies that ensure federal prisoners and detainees have access to the medical care they need to transition, including surgical care, while incarcerated or in custody,” she wrote.
“Transitional care is medically necessary, and I will direct all federal agencies responsible for providing essential health care to provide transitional care.”
Additionally, Harris declared at the time that she supports decriminalizing “all drug possession for personal use” at the federal level.
“[I] “I believe it is long past time to change the outdated and discriminatory criminalization of marijuana,” Harris wrote during her previous campaign. “Throughout my career, I have supported treating drug addiction as a public health issue.”
“Last year, overdose deaths in the United States fell for the first time in five years,” the Harris-Waltz campaign page states. “As president, she will sign a bipartisan border bill, fund detection technology to stop even more illegal drugs, and continue to fight to end the opioid epidemic.”
Harris also supports repealing the Hyde Amendment, a 1970s policy that banned the use of federal funds (taxpayer money) to perform abortions.
However, supporters of the Hyde Amendment argue that it is beneficial because it saves taxpayers from having to foot the bill for a civilian abortion that goes against the religious beliefs of many people, and it resolves issues of personal negligence for both the men and women involved.
“Limiting women's options for obtaining and paying for an abortion effectively infringes on their reproductive rights. We must repeal the Hyde Amendment and require all insurance companies to provide full reproductive health coverage,” Harris said.
There were also several questions Harris did not answer in the ACLU's survey, including whether she would commit to “reducing the inmate population in the federal prison system by 50 percent,” releasing 25,000 inmates from federal prisons, issuing federal guidelines “recommending the use of deadly force by police,” and “reducing the immigration detention system by at least 75 percent.”
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