Posted on 10/13/2024 10:17:15 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
As Vice President Kamala Harris vows to crack down on illegal immigration at the nation’s southern border, she has played up her experience as California’s attorney general pursuing criminal groups that traffic drugs, guns and people across the United States and Mexico.
“I was the top law enforcement officer of the biggest state of the country, California — that is also a border state,” she said on Thursday at a town hall in Nevada. “I took on transnational criminal organizations.”
Ms. Harris’s surrogates and allies say her push on transnational crime sheds light on how she might address challenges at the border. The issue is at the forefront of voters’ concerns after illegal border crossings surged during President Biden’s first years in office, and as former President Donald J. Trump and his allies fuel falsehoods about immigrant gangs and conflate immigration with crime.
Now, her record prosecuting cross-border crime is being scrutinized by Democrats and social justice activists and distorted by Republicans. And some of the tactics she had embraced she is no longer willing to say she supports. Here is what she did as California’s attorney general, why it matters and why it could have implications should she win in November.
Ms. Harris made tackling transnational crime a priority in her campaign for attorney general of California in 2010 and during her six years in the role.
From the beginning, she sought to change how law enforcement agencies would combat criminal activity along interstate corridors. She brought together federal officials and state attorneys general to strategize, and convened multiagency task forces to work with counterparts in Mexico and across Latin America. They...
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I've noticed she never says how many convictions she's had, just that she took them on.
Too funny
NYT writers aren’t aware that Alaska and Texas are states...
She had meetings, and then she had some more meetings.
I think they mean California is the biggest state in population, not geographically. They really should clarify what they mean.
BS!
The NYT really fit that one to print!
She’s had almost 4 years tom do something about the border and her only accomplishment has been to weaken it beyond belief.
All her rhetoric about crime and doing something about the border is meaningless hot air. I DON’T want more of the same and that’s what we’ll be getting with her.
If her record is the example of what we’ll get with her, America is over.
Any illegal prosecuted by Harris should have been sent back to where he/she came from. No exceptions. How many did she send back? I’ll bet the answer is less than one.
I read the title and thought it was a Bee article.
There's no evidence she did any such thing. There is evidence that she busted a bunch of no-account pot heads.
I think it was Mark Levin who said she never prosecuted a single case in her career. I wonder if this article provides any examples.
Folks in Alaska would disagree entirely.
“”They really should clarify what they mean.””
It wasn’t the writers - it was Kamala’s words....NO they!
“”NYT writers aren’t aware that Alaska and Texas are states””
It wasn’t the writers - those were Kamala’s words but I can easily believe that she would NOT BE AWARE of TX and AK...
Oh now Harris is a a cross border crime fighter???? They’re really going off the deep end.
Cross border crime fighter, more like cross border supporter of the drug cartels.
This is getting so crazy, it’s surreal.
The NYT editorial board will say or do anything to drag Madame Word Salad over the finish line.
5.56mm
>>> “I took on transnational criminal organizations.” <<<
She also took on Willie Brown.
That’s about right, she is doing nothing in her campaign too.
With all her wiz bang credentials, why isn’t she enforcing the laws NOW? Someone should ask her what she’s waiting for?
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