This ding-a-ling Kamala Harris needs to come up some ideas of her own.
Assuming she capable of it.

'Harris flip-flops on building the border wall'

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'If she's elected president, Kamala Harris pledges to spend hundreds of
millions of dollars on the wall along the southern border — a project
she once opposed and called "un-American" during the Trump
administration.

Why it matters: It's the latest example of Harris flip-flopping on her
past liberal positions such as supporting Medicare for All and banning
fracking — proposals that aides say she now is against.

Harris is embracing a more hawkish immigration policy as Donald Trump's
campaign spends tens of millions of dollars attacking her about the
border.
But she still has significant differences with Trump on immigration,
opposing his approach to family separation and his plans for mass
deportations.
Driving the news: In her speech to the Democratic National Convention
last week, Harris said she would sign the recent bipartisan border
security bill — which Trump had ordered his allies to kill, fearing it
would help Democrats in the November elections.

That bill, negotiated by senators such as James Lankford (R-Okla.) and
Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), requires hundreds of millions of dollars of
unspent funds to be used to continue building a wall on the border.
"It requires the Trump border wall," Lankford told Axios. "It is in the
bill itself that it sets the standards that were set during the Trump
administration: Here's where it will be built. Here's how it has to be
built, the height, the type, everything during the Trump construction."
Harris' campaign says the border deal is a whole lot more than
continuation of wall funding — and a tiny fraction of what Trump has
proposed.
Lankford's office estimated the legislation would spend $650 million on
a wall, down from the $18 billion Trump requested in 2018.

The bill, which Murphy described as a "compromise" also included
provisions with more money for asylum lawyers and judges for the
overloaded immigration system. It also gave the president the authority
to shut down the border if more than an average of 5,000 migrants
crossed per day.
The other side: Harris advisers note that the bipartisan border proposal
didn't include any new money to continue building the wall.

It just extended the timeline to spend funds that had been appropriated
during Trump's last year as president, they say, although the
legislation has new restrictions to ensure the money is spent on
barriers.
Flashback: In declaring her candidacy in her first run for president in
2019, Harris called the wall Trump's "medieval vanity project" that
wasn't going to stop transnational gangs from entering the U.S.

In February 2020, Harris wrote on Facebook that "Trump's border wall is
a complete waste of taxpayer money and won't make us any safer."
In April 2017, soon after joining the Senate, Harris said the wall was a
"stupid use of money. I will block any funding for it."
Between the lines: Lankford said he was surprised with Harris' full
embrace of the border bill this year.

He told Axios that Harris wasn't involved in the months-long
negotiations: "We never saw any vice president staff here. ... She was a
Johnny-come-never."
"I know she's talking about it now, but she wasn't talking about it at
all before."
When the bill was released, Murphy called it an "aggressive" plan but
didn't emphasize the money for the wall.

"We're creating bold new tools to get control of the border for the
first time in a long time," he said in February. "But our bill does not
deviate from our nation's core values."
President Biden — then the presumed Democratic nominee — lambasted Trump
for demanding Republicans kill the compromise, calling it pure politics.
"He feels it would be a political win for me, and a political loser for
him," Biden said in his State of the Union address.
But some Democrats also criticized Biden for embracing conservative and
restrictive policies on immigration that were included in the bill.
Sen. Alex Padilla, a Democrat from Harris' home state of California,
opposed the bill and said it "fails to provide relief for a single
Dreamer, a single farmworker, a single essential worker or long-term
resident."
Zoom in: Beyond embracing the bipartisan bill, Harris' campaign has
portrayed her as an immigration hardliner in ads.

One Harris TV ad frames her time as California's attorney general as
that of a "border state prosecutor," and includes images of the border
wall.
In another, Harris' team highlights her support of boosting the number
of Border Patrol agents.
Most of Trump campaign ads have attacked Harris for the Biden
administration's struggle to deal with waves of migrants crossing the
border.
The bottom line: Like the wall itself, Harris' changes on border policy
reflect how Trump has shifted the political debate on immigration during
the past decade.'