FLASHBACK: Kamala Compared ICE to KKK, Called Trump’s Southern Border Wall ‘A Vanity Project.’
Kamala Harris previously compared U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and called former President Donald J. Trump‘s wall on the southern border a “vanity project.” The re-emergence of Harris’s remarks comes as she faces increasing scrutiny as the Democratic Party’s presumptive 2024 presidential nominee following 81-year-old Joe Biden’s exit from the race on July 21.
In a 2018 Senate hearing, then-Senator Harris likened ICE to the KKK. Harris pressed Ronald Vitiello—the then-acting director of ICE—regarding the history of the KKK and its targeting of individuals based on their race. “Are you aware of the perception of many about how the power and the discretion at ICE is being used to enforce the laws? And do you see any parallels?” Harris asked Vitiello, suggesting the governmental agency was engaged in activities similar to that of the KKK.
Outraged, Vitiello pushed back, asking Harris if she was putting ICE in the same category as the KKK. The then-California Senator doubled down, asking the acting ICE director again if he was aware that some saw the agency as behaving the same way as the KKK, suggesting “there might need to be some work done to correct [that] perception.”
https://thenationalpulse.com/2024/07/30/flashback-kamala-compared-ice-to-kkk-called-trumps-southern-border-wall-a-vanity-project/
