Kamala Harris has changed her mind about a lot of problems since she first ran for president in 2020, but she has rarely said that she has changed her mind.
The most recent thing she has changed her mind about is the border wall. Harris was very against building a wall along the southern border for many years. She made it clear that she thought a border wall was racist and a waste of money both while Trump was in office and when she ran for office in 2020.
Harris has been against the wall since 2017. In 2017, she wrote on X, “Trump’s border wall is just a stupid use of money. I will stop any money from going to it.”
“The walls we build don’t make our bond stronger. Our strength lies in our differences,” Harris wrote on X in 2019.
As the Democratic candidate for president, Harris has now said she supported building a wall along the border.
Axios reported that Harris said in her acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention that she would sign the Senate bill that was introduced earlier this year to deal with the border problem. However, the bill came with the condition that more money be sent to the war in Ukraine. Republicans were very against the bill because it had language in it that would have made some of the worst parts of the border crisis official. However, the bill would require hundreds of millions of dollars in unallocated funds to be used to build a wall along the southern border.
Sen. James Lankford (R-Oklahoma) told Axios, “It requires Trump’s wall along the border. The rules that were set by Trump during his presidency are written in the bill itself. We have to build it this way, with this height, this type, and everything else.”
Trump wanted to spend $18 billion on the wall, but Harris’ team said that the $650 million was not nearly as much as he wanted to spend.
Harris’s cautious support for the border wall shows that Democrats are well aware that the border and illegal immigration in general are major problems for them. This is especially true since the Biden-Harris administration caused the border crisis.
