If you want to know where Vice President Kamala Harris and the Democrats stand on the border and immigration, a recent exchange between former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Bill Maher tells the tale.
Pelosi recently told Maher that she supports a California bill that would give illegal immigrants taxpayer money to buy homes. Maher quipped that Democrats didn’t used to support “free housing” for illegal immigrants, and Pelosi replied, “Well, that’s not free housing. It’s the American Dream being available to more people.”
When Maher noted that the California bill would make the American Dream available for the “undocumented,” Pelosi said, “Well, what I would like to do is move them to documented.”
And that, in a nutshell, is the Democrat Party’s view of illegal immigration. They would like to make illegal immigrants who are already living in the United States, legal. The favored policy for making them legal is mass amnesty — with public benefits like taxpayer funding for a new home. This is what Democrats means when they talk about “comprehensive immigration reform.” They mean mass amnesty.
This is Kamala Harris’ view. She has said so explicitly many times. When Harris reiterates her support — as she does every time immigration comes up these day — for the “bipartisan border bill” that was brought forward last year and narrowly defeated by Republicans, she’s signaling that she supports mass illegal immigration with legalization bestowed after the fact. That’s the Democrat position.
And it’s not a new position. Democrats have been
