Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign just launched a new page on its website titled “Agenda,” which includes a 23-point policy platform after weeks of criticism for its lack of policies.
The Harris campaign has been under increasing pressure to post a policy platform on its website, as former President Donald Trump and others have done in the past, but the platform faced even more criticism when it was released this week. Criticism of lack of specifics.
In particular, one conservative immigration advocate took issue with the platform not clarifying Harris' position on border wall funding and whether she still views illegal border crossings as a civil or criminal enforcement issue.
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A section of the border wall in Del Rio, Texas, remains unfinished. (Fox News)
“The Harris campaign finally has an 'issues' page, but it's completely blank, at least when it comes to immigration,” Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, told Fox News Digital. “She hasn't said whether she wants to build more border wall. She hasn't said whether she wants to decriminalize crossing the border. The statement just repeats empty nonsense about the 'bipartisan' Senate border bill that the Biden-Harris Administration's Department of Homeland Security drafted to codify an illegal plan to import more illegal immigrants.”
The new online policy platform did not clarify where Harris stands on additional border wall funding, even though it suggested a Harris-Walz administration might “revive bipartisan border security legislation.” Republicans have pointed to Harris' public support for a failed bipartisan border bill as evidence that she now supports a border wall after once calling it a “medieval vanity project.”
but Harris campaign officials The border bill does not include any new funding for the border wall, simply extending the deadline for spending funds appropriated for the final year of Trump's term, but it does include limitations to ensure that funds are spent on the border wall.
“The American people should believe Vice President Harris' past statements and current policies,” Laura Reese, director of the Heritage Foundation's Center on Border Security and Immigration, told Fox News Digital in a statement on Tuesday. “She has said many times before that she opposes the border wall, and on day one of the Biden-Harris Administration, they halted construction of the border wall.”
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Migrants walk along a highway in southern Mexico this summer as they make their way north toward the U.S. border. (Edgar H. Clemente/The Associated Press)
Meanwhile, Ms Harris, who ran for president in 2019, suggested she would not pursue illegal border crossings during a nationally televised debate, and reiterated her position during a segment on ABC's “The View” during a spat with Meghan, the daughter of the late Sen. John McCain.
“I would not make this a crime punishable by prison,” Harris said. “This should be a civil enforcement issue, not a criminal enforcement issue.”
“During her CNN interview, Ms. Harris repeatedly stated that her values have not changed,” Reiss said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
The Harris campaign did not respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital about the criticism from Krikorian and others that the new online policy platform lacks specifics.
The Harris campaign website added an “Issues” page to its website that includes the Harris-Waltz campaign's policy platform. The addition comes 50 days after Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race. (Harris campaign website)
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Trump campaign spokeswoman Caroline Leavitt called the new policy platform a “late-night, half-baked policy wish list.”
“If Kamala really wanted to cut costs and secure our border, why did she vote in a runoff election to support creating inflation and a war on the energy industry? And why is she still allowing illegal immigrants to cross our southern border at this very moment?”
Shortly after the Harris campaign's “issues” page was added to the website, social media users pointed out that the new webpage contained metadata containing language that seemed to encourage voters to re-elect President Joe Biden. New Republic. Biden's comments were quickly deleted, but the impression that the Harris campaign had copied and pasted Biden's document remained, the outlet reported.
