Vice President Kamala Harris is now promising to secure the border, but as a senator from California, she was a staunch opponent of deporting illegal immigrants.
Harris joined a group of protesters during a parade in Los Angeles in 2018 chanting: “Down with deportation!” in a video obtained exclusively by the Daily Mail.
Harris was named grand marshal of the 33rd annual parade, typically reserved to celebrate the legacy of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
But left-wing political forces used the occasion to celebrate their own political causes, including the “Times Up!” movement, which involved women protesting against sexual harassment and discrimination in the workplace.
The topic of immigration enforcement also came up during the parade, prompting Harris to join in chants celebrating illegal immigration without consequences.
Kamala Harris protests against deportation during a parade in Los Angeles in 2019
“Long live education, down with deportation!” she chanted enthusiastically alongside the group of activists at her side, clapping, pointing and smiling.
Harris was joined by family members, including husband Doug Emhoff and daughter Ella Emhoff, who recorded the occasion on her iPhone.
Other prominent figures who accompanied her in the parade included a former rising television star, Jussie Smollet, who appeared in the show Empire, a fictional story about a fight for control of a hip-hop production company.
Smollet, wearing sunglasses and a Times Up T-shirt, held a little girl and joined Harris in the crowd of protesters.
Kamala Harris marches and protests against deportation alongside actor Jussie Smollett
Kamala Harris sings against deportation with husband Doug and stepdaughter Ella Emhoff
In January 2019, Smollett was convicted of carrying out a false hate crime after falsely claiming that two men wearing MAGA hats attacked him, doused him with bleach and tied a noose around his neck.
Harris described the attack as a “modern-day lynching attempt” on social media in a post that has yet to be deleted, even after Smollett’s claim has been thoroughly debunked.
Harris made good on her goal of reducing deportations once she entered the White House.
According to data released by ICE, the Biden administration’s actions in office resulted in a 67 percent decrease in deportations of criminal aliens compared to the Trump administration.
In the first three years of the Trump administration, ICE removed 485,930 illegal aliens with criminal seizures or pending criminal charges.
However, the Biden-Harris administration only expelled 158,931 criminal aliens or those with pending charges.
Harris has sounded the alarm over Trump’s promise to resume deporting criminal illegal immigrants, warning of “mass deportation” camps.
“They’ve committed to carrying out the largest deportation, a mass deportation, in American history,” Harris said during a speech at an event hosted by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, the nonprofit arm of the congressional group.
“How are you going to do that? Mass raids? Mass detention camps?” he asked. “What are they talking about?”
Trump said he would first prioritize the deportation of criminal illegal immigrants, in a interview with journalist Sharyl Attkisson.
“We’re taking out the criminals and we’re going to do it fast, and we know who they are,” Trump said.
He spoke about the dangers of allowing unchecked illegal immigration into the United States.
“We are not a dumping ground. We are going to get all these people out and we are going to get them out quickly and we have no other option, because that is not sustainable for any country,” he said.
