Posted on 07/12/2019 9:02:11 AM PDT by jazusamo
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(CNSNews.com) - Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), now among the leading contenders for the Democrat presidential nomination, says President Trump's immigration raids are "a crime against humanity."
She made the comment Thursday night during an interview with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow.
Harris argued that President Trump is ordering the immigration raids to distract from his presidential failures:
Harris said Trump believes "we are not a nation that should embrace immigrants."So the guy has now got to start distracting people from the fact that he made all these promises that I believe he had no intention of fulfilling. And he has failed to perform on every level by which we should measure a president of the United States. Not to mention failed as a commander in chief.
And so he's going to create, as he often does, this distraction....and do these raids, which is a crime against humanity, I believe, in the way he is coming about this and the way he has been handling the issue, when you have babies in cages...
Trump repeatedly has said he has no problem with immigration if it's done legally.
The immigration raids planned for this weekend in ten major cities are aimed at people who are here illegally and have deportation orders against them.
In Chicago, Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced this week that she will "never tolerate I.C.E. tearing our families apart."
Lightfoot said the threat of raids has forced illegal immigrants to hide in fear. She said the Chicago Police Department "will not cooperate with I.C.E." in detaining residents, nor will I.C.E. have access to any Chicago Police databases.
Even House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has advised illegal immigrants that they do not have to open their doors to immigration authorities with lawful deportation orders.
Harris said she supports efforts to shield illegal immigrants from deportation.
"I assumed that what Mayor Lightfoot is doing in Chicago similar to what Mayor Breed will do in San Francisco, what Mayor Garcetti will do in Los Angeles, which is say we don't want the limited resources of local law enforcement to go into the job that the federal government has got to do, and we want our local law enforcement to be trusted by our community and not be feared by our community," Harris said.
"Because again, as a prosecutor, as a former prosecutor, but I saw it as a prosecutor, I don't want a victim of crime to be afraid to wave down that patrol car when she has been hurt for fear that if she stops that police officer she is going to be deported.
"Because I'm going to tell you something. If she is a mother, if he is a father, they will endure any kind of abuse they have personally experienced to make sure they can go home at night and take care of their babies. Which means they will not report bad things that have happened to them and therefore to their community, meaning our community. Because, by the way, a crime against any one of us is a crime against all of us," Harris continued.
"And so I applaud that mayor saying we're not going to put local resources into that. And when we put local resources into something like that, like we have done in the past, we're going to go prosecute transnational criminal organizations. What are you doing picking up people who by I.C.E.'s own definition have not committed a crime? It's a misuse of resources."
Kamalalala running for President is a crime against the Constitution.
No, you stupid bitch
Crime against humanity is having so many people looking over their shoulders in hopes that the INS will not grab them and P port them to a country they have never been to to a culture they know nothing about
Those people need to be giving legal status in this country as well, immigration reform needs to take Place and in chain migration, birthright citizenship, H1B reform and a few other issues
You jackasses are holding up those reforms and leaving those people with uncertainty in their lives that they shouldn’t have
The deportations will probly stop when you come to the table
Agreed, that’s a simple solution to maintain the family unit.
Kamala is Calirornian leftist. She has ceased being American.
She must not be listened to.
I’d have to include Bush League Republicans like Flimsey Grahamnesty who want to give the Democrats a permanent majority with amnesty for illegal aliens.
These are people who have already been told to leave and did not. These folks ARE criminals.....illegal entry is a crime.
Kamala’s view is a “crime against humanity.”
Much of this boils down to basic Civics:
Three co-equal branches of government:
Legislators make laws
Executive branch enforces laws
Judicial branch interprets and applies laws
Trump and ICE and enforcing the laws that the legislative branch has previously passed.
If the current legislators don’t like the laws, they can try to write new laws. That’s what they are there for.
But for legislators to argue that the Executive branch should not enforce the law ought to be a non-starter. It is risible. But I guess we stopped teaching Civics some time ago.
Exactly, they’ve had their hearings and have been ordered deported.
Completely disagree.
We owe fraudulently documented foreigners NOTHING.
Build the wall.
Deport them ALL.
This is NOT an "Immigration Raid"!!!!
Really, you do not see the broad plan in this?
1. There have been a lot of self-deportations since then, especially from the bad ones who don’t want to get rolled up.
2. The Democrats have basically shown to all and sundry that they support illegal immigrants over Americans. That will leave a mark.
3. Congress just got to show how useless they are once again, because now Pelosi is having to publicly spin like a top for every one of her members in the DNC.
When this nation implodes due to these people’s actions, crimes against humanity will be happening on every street corner.
So, how would Willie Brown’s mattress girl feel about Tommy Robinson being smuggled into the US from a UK prison? Would she be against ICE raiding to catch him and return him to the UK? Since Tommy is ‘melanin challenged’, I sure doubt it!
In the socialist world view, some are more equal than others!
So illegals are more deserving than citizens?
Deport all illegals.
illegal immigrants
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No such thing.
Immigrants are people who applied for, paid for, waited for and complied with the documents that make them immigrants.
Illegal aliens are people who overstay visas or just break in.
You nailed it.
Of course that’s all thrown to the wind when Dems don’t get their way, especially with President Trump in office.
They blatantly ignore the rule of law, lie and don’t give a whit who knows it.
I swear, these Democrat Presidential candidates must continue to think that the ‘Demo’ part means “Demolition”... which is exactly what they continue to do to their chances.
Keep talking, people... I can always find more popcorn.
Sorry Kamala- illegal Aliens who are BREAKING OUR LAWS, and costing us over $600 BILLION DOLLARS per year, EVERY SINGLE FRIGGIN YEAR, while OUR own citizens are lying in the streets homeless, while OUR nation’s own children go hungry, while our veterans don’t get the health care they deserve after having fought for our country- THAt Kamala is a crime against humanity!
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