You'll be glad to know that she assured her CNN advocate today that her "values haven't changed", so we can expect to get still more of this, good and hard.
/How the migrant crisis drained $150 billion from taxpayers in a single year https://t.co/iNnf5byQJf pic.twitter.com/L4X7qr4mpk
— New York Post (@nypost) August 29, 2024
“Last year, US taxpayers shelled out some $150 billion in government services and support to help the 20 million illegal migrants in the country, according to a study from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR).
“And most of the cost is being borne by state and local governments.”
And note this:
In an August 2020 article USA Today defended Kampalla against conservative posters who were charging her with hypocrisy by claiming that she had once supported a border. She absolutely did not! the paper insisted.
Our ruling: False
Sen. Kamala Harris has been a vocal critic of border wall funding, seeing the move as misguided. There is no evidence the 2011 photo's backdrop was meant to emphasize the border fencing, but rather the law enforcement personnel who appeared alongside Harris. We rate this claim FALSE, because it is not supported by our research.
Harris was one of the three senators who opposed a deal which would have granted Trump border wall funding as part of a legislative deal that also included a path to citizenship for recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
“I’m not going to vote for a wall under any circumstances,” Harris said during a 2019 CNN Town Hall where she called the president’s wall proposal a “medieval vanity project.”
Harris again called the idea of an expanded border wall a “vanity project” while on a tour for her book “The Truths We Hold: An American Journey.” Harris called the budgetary fight over funding for the wall a “distraction from the fact that you’ve got Mueller investigating.”
Harris also called the war on drugs “ineffective” and criticized the country’s cash bail system as “not reflective of a system of justice” because of its disproportionate cost and damage inflicted on poor Americans.
Harris later repeated the line during the May 2019 kickoff rally for her presidential campaign.
"Folks, on the subject of transnational gangs, let's be perfectly clear: The president's medieval vanity project is not going to stop them,” the senator said.