Kamala Harris Blames Trump For Not Allowing Immigrants Bill But Her 2017 Tweet Goes Contrary

Kamal Harris, who is running for US President in November 2024 Presidential election, has found herself in row over contrary statements on the issue of illegal immigrants into the United States.

The issue came into highlight after billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk brought word’s attention to an old tweet by Harris which she wrote in 2017, hitting out at the Trump administration for taking action against immigrants and advocated for giving them citizenship.

In 2017 tweets, Harris wrote, “An undocumented immigrant is not a criminal. It’s ludicrous to say we’re going to deport 12 million people. Now how are you going to do that?”

“Give people a path to citizenship. The vast majority of folks we’re talking about are living a lawful life and paying taxes,” she added.

“We are not a society that is going to stand for tearing families apart. We are not going to buy into this administration’s fear mongering,” Kamala Harris had said.

However, in her latest interview to CNN on Thursday, Kamala Harris blamed Donald Trump and Republican members of the Congress for why the Biden-Harris administration didn’t take action on the souther border for three years and untill recently.

But in June 2024, the Biden-Harris administration announced that migrants found crossing the US-Mexico border will be denied to claim asylum in the country and would be deported or turned back to Mexico.

US denies asylum to migrants from Mexico

Migrants caught illegally crossing the US-Mexico border could be denied the chance to claim asylum and quickly deported or turned back to Mexico under new restrictions announced on Tuesday, part of a sweeping enforcement effort by US President Joe Biden.

The new measures will take effect immediately and will have exceptions for unaccompanied children, people who face serious medical or safety threats and victims of trafficking, a senior official said on a call with reporters.