John Smyth wrote:
> 'Harris told ACLU in 2019 she supports cuts to ICE funding and providing
> gender transition surgery to detained migrants'
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> <https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/09/politics/kfile-harris-pledged-support-in-2019-to-cut-ice-funding-and-provide-transgender-surgery-to-detained-migrants/index.html>
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> '
> As Kamala Harris pivots to the political center in her campaign for
> president, a 2019 questionnaire from a leading civil rights organization
> spotlights her past support for left-wing causes such as taxpayer-funded
> gender transition surgeries for detained immigrants and federal
> prisoners.
>
> In an American Civil Liberties Union questionnaire then-Sen. Harris
> filled out as a candidate for president in 2020, she also expressed
> support for decriminalizing federal drug possession for personal use,
> and for sweeping reductions to Immigration and Custom
> Enforcement operations, including drastic cuts in ICE funding and an
> open-ended pledge to “end” immigration detention.
>
> The questionnaire has received scant media attention and a spokesperson
> for the ACLU claimed it had remained live from 2019.
>
> But the ACLU’s website upload and page source indicate the questionnaire
> was reposted last month after Harris became the presumptive Democratic
> nominee. CNN was unable to find questionnaires filled out by other
> candidates from the 2020 campaign that the ACLU had reposted.
>
> Harris has acknowledged that some of her stances have evolved over time
> but that she holds core beliefs that remain unshakable: “My values have
> not changed,” she said in an interview with CNN last month.
>
> The ACLU questionnaire, which was sent  to all Democratic and Republican
> candidates during the 2020 presidential campaign, provides a clear
> record of Harris’ progressive stances. Some candidates did not respond
> to the questionnaire, including Joe Biden. The ACLU later ran radio ads
> attacking Biden for not answering.
>
> The ACLU also had volunteers question candidates at public town halls
> and later posted videos on their website of their responses.
>
> During one town hall event in New Hampshire in April 2019, Harris was
> asked by a voter if she supports adding a “third gender” to federal
> identification cards.
>
> “Sure,” Harris answered to a round of applause from the crowd. “I have
> my entire life and career been an ally and I see the issue of LGBTQ
> rights as a fundamental civil rights and human rights issue, period,”
> Harris said.
>
> In her response, Harris also attacked the Trump administration’s efforts
> to ban transgender troops in the military, calling it “outrageous.”
>
> Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Vice President Kamala Harris are interviewed
> by CNN’s Dana Bash at Kim’s Cafe in Savannah, Georgia, on August 29,
> 2024. This is the first time Harris has sat with a journalist for an
> in-depth, on-the-record conversation since President Joe Biden ended his
> presidential bid in July.
> Related article
> READ: Harris and Walz’s exclusive joint interview with CNN
> “These are people who have decided they are willing to sacrifice and
> serve for the sake of our democracy and our freedom, and you’re going to
> kick them out of the military?” Harris said.
>
> The ACLU told CNN it doesn’t plan on sending Harris a new questionnaire
> this election.
>
> The Harris campaign did not answer questions from CNN on whether she
> continued to support these positions and instead provided a statement
> attributable only to an unnamed “Harris campaign advisor” saying, “The
> Vice President’s positions have been shaped by three years of effective
> governance as part of the Biden-Harris Administration.”
>
> They declined to elaborate on what her positions were.
>
> They also provided a comment attributed to a Harris campaign
> spokesperson saying, “As President, she will take that same pragmatic
> approach, focusing on common-sense solutions for the sake of progress.”
>
> Immigration
> Harris’ starkest contrast to her current positions might be her new
> tough immigration rhetoric versus what she told the ACLU.
>
> When asked about criminal justice reform on the questionnaire, she wrote
> she would end immigration detention facilities (along with private
> prisons). Harris also said she supported decreasing funding for ICE.
>
> “Our immigrant detention system is out of control, and I believe we must
> end the unfair incarceration of thousands of individuals, families and
> children,” Harris wrote. “I was one of the first Senators after
> President Trump was elected to advocate for a decrease in funding to
> ICE.”
>
> Harris appears to be citing her efforts in 2017 to oppose increased ICE
> funding under Trump.
>
> Harris wrote that in 2018 she had introduced the Detention Oversight,
> Not Expansion (DONE) Act to, “increase oversight of Immigration and
> Customs Enforcement detention facilities, slash detention by at least
> 50%, and halt funding for the construction or expansion of new
> facilities.”
>
> Harris also pledged to end the use of ICE detainers – requests by ICE to
> local or state law enforcement to hold an individual up to 48 hours
> beyond their release time so ICE can take them into custody for possible
> deportation.
>
> Sen. Kamala Harris and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand speak with Lili Montalban
> and her daughter Roxanna Gozzer, as they visit the outside of a
> detention center for migrant children on June 28, 2019 in Homestead,
> Florida.
> Sens. Kamala Harris and Kirsten Gillibrand speak with Lili Montalban and
> her daughter Roxanna Gozzer as they visit the outside of a detention
> center for migrant children on June 28, 2019, in Homestead, Florida. Joe
> Raedle/Getty Images/File
> During the Trump administration, ICE aggressively targeted undocumented
> immigrants, including asylum seekers, for detention and deportation.
> Under the administration’s “zero tolerance” policy, ICE expanded its use
> of detention centers, conducted more workplace raids and increased
> arrests of undocumented immigrants without criminal records.
>
> The Biden-Harris administration continued to issue detainer requests,
> but the rate fell sharply in the months after the January 2021
> inauguration, according to data from Syracuse University.
>
> Harris also noted that as California attorney general, she had issued
> guidance saying local law enforcement would not have to comply with such
> detainers.
>
> “As president, I will focus enforcement on increasing public safety, not
> tearing apart immigrant families. This includes requiring ICE to obtain
> a warrant where probable cause exists as to end the use of detainers,”
> she wrote.
>
> ICE had clashed with many so-called sanctuary cities that limited their
> cooperation during Trump’s presidency. In response, the Trump
> administration attempted to withhold certain federal grants and
> increased efforts to bypass local authorities to detain and deport
> undocumented immigrants.
>
> As San Francisco district attorney, Harris supported immigrant rights by
> defending the city’s sanctuary status, stating at the time, “We are a
> sanctuary city, a city of refuge, and we always will be.”
>
> However, Harris also backed a policy that turned over undocumented
> juvenile immigrants to federal authorities if they were arrested for
> suspected felonies, regardless of conviction.
>
> As California attorney general, Harris targeted criminal gangs that
> operated across the US-Mexico border. She also expressed support for
> undocumented immigrants deemed not to pose a public safety threat, and
> opposed Obama-era policies that could send non-criminal undocumented
> immigrants into deportation proceedings.
>
> Transgender rights
> Harris also wrote that she supported taxpayer funding of gender
> transition surgeries for detained immigrants and federal prisoners.
>
> Harris was asked if, as president, she would use “executive authority to
> ensure that transgender and non-binary people who rely on the state for
> medical care – including those in prison and immigration detention –
> will have access to comprehensive treatment associated with gender
> transition, including all necessary surgical care.”
>
> Harris replied, “Yes.”
>
> “It is important that transgender individuals who rely on the state for
> care receive the treatment they need, which includes access to treatment
> associated with gender transition,” Harris wrote in a reply expanding on
> her answer. “That’s why, as Attorney General, I pushed the California
> Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to provide gender
> transition surgery to state inmates,” she wrote.
>
> Harris explained that she supported granting prisoners and detainees
> access to “surgical care” for gender transition.
>
> “Transition treatment is a medical necessity, and I will direct all
> federal agencies responsible for providing essential medical care to
> deliver transition treatment,” she wrote.
>
> Sen. Kamala Harris waves to the crowd as she rides in a car during the
> SF Pride Parade on June 30, 2019, in San Francisco.
> Sen. Kamala Harris waves to the crowd as she rides in a car during the
> SF Pride Parade on June 30, 2019, in San Francisco. Justin
> Sullivan/Getty Images/File
> The first-ever gender-affirming surgery in federal prison occurred only
> recently in 2022 after years of legal battles.
>
> Harris’ answer marked a change from her previous position as California
> attorney general, when she defended the California Department of
> Corrections’ attempts to deny gender transition surgery.
>
> While running for president in 2019, Harris faced criticism over that
> previous position.
>
> At a news conference and later a LGBTQ forum that year, Harris said
> defending the policy was “contrary to my beliefs” but she was obligated
> to defend policy while she “worked behind the scenes” to change it.
>
> Drugs
> Harris also indicated she supported the decriminalization of all drug
> possession for personal use.
>
> While Harris indicated she supported drug legalization, her answer
> focused solely on marijuana, citing her co-sponsorship of the Marijuana
> Justice Act, which sought to legalize federal marijuana.
>
> She explained that drug use should be treated as a public health issue
> rather than a criminal one.
>
> “Throughout my career, I have supported treating drug addiction as a
> public health issue, focusing on rehabilitation over incarceration for
> drug-related offenses,” she wrote.
>
> During her 2019 campaign, Harris admitted to smoking marijuana in the
> past in calling for its legalization.'
>
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