Letters

With a snap of his fingers, Joe Biden performed an immigration miracle with his June executive order restricting entry into our country for most asylum seekers — suddenly, new case numbers decreased 68 percent nationwide. Three and a half years too late, he and the Democratic Party finally woke up to their own immigration folly when Biden canceled an immensely successful immigration policy on his first day in office. Biden’s order opened the doors to 11 million undocumented asylum seekers who overwhelmed our border, courts and cities at great expense to the American people and untold hardship for the asylum seekers.

The fawning liberal media’s reaction was predictable: Biden’s June executive order is seen as “achieving its objective.” Imagine that — just in time for the elections. No mention by the mainstream media that illegal immigration had increased sixfold since Biden took office after he canceled what was already working.

So, where does chameleon Kamala really stand on immigration? Let’s take a trip on the “Professor Peabody’s Wayback Machine.”

As a U.S. senator, Harris spent four years actively opposing border enforcement proposals. In 2019, she supported decriminalizing illegal border crossings. Now, her campaign officials, when asked about her past stance on immigration, answer on her behalf, “Unauthorized border crossings are illegal.” This response is nothing more than a statement of existing law and tells us nothing about what she believes as a presidential candidate.

Even more telling, her handlers have aptly shielded her from the media, preventing unscripted public statements for over a month — but her history speaks to us loud and clear.

As San Francisco district attorney, she continued the sanctuary city’s policy of not cooperating with federal immigration officials when illegal immigrants committed crimes. During her first year as D.A., in 2004, Harris failed to contact Immigration and Customs Enforcement when Edwin Ramos assaulted a pregnant woman and later served six months in jail for robbery.

Four years later, Ramos was again arrested, along with a fellow gang member who had possession of a gun used in a murder. Harris did not prosecute Ramos because it could not be proven he knew the gang member had the gun. Fair enough. But surely she should have notified ICE of his illegal status and had him deported as she should have the first time.

Instead, Ramos was allowed to skate — and only three months later he was involved in a road rage incident. The result? Ramos killed a father and his two sons.

After all this, when Harris was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2017, she focused on cutting funding for our Border Patrol detention centers, as well as de-funding ICE deportation protocols.

Her record on immigration speaks for itself.

John Porta

Westhampton