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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STOP! YOU’RE KILLING ME 🤣🤣🤣
If low-info retards didn’t BELIEVE the NYRimes wouldn’t push this garbage for decades. They’d never even exist without the Democrat base.
“Fighting cross-border crime”
Wow, she did a great job with that!
Since Harris lied so much about her career as a prosecutor, I’m betting she is lying about fighting border crimes. I presume an article examining her so called prosecution of illegal crimes will be printed shortly.
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