By It’s becoming more and more clear that Harris claims to no longer believe in sanctuary cities and defunding the police not because she’s changed her mind, but because the stances have grown increasingly unpopular since 2020.
The old saying is that actions speak louder than words, and the Democrat’s actions—and where she sends money—are a megaphone that screams she’s a true believer in leftist policies on policing and immigration, The Washington Examiner writes.
Legal Aid DC, a nonprofit organization in the district that works on housing law and represents low-income clients in other areas, received a $1,000 donation from Harris and Emhoff in 2023, according to a copy of their joint tax return. In 2021, the couple also directed $1,000 to Legal Aid DC, a Washington Examiner review of financial disclosures found.
News of the donations, which have not been reported on until now, comes as Harris faces scrutiny on the 2024 campaign trail over her support in 2020 for defunding the police and her handling of the border crisis. Harris has reversed course on a variety of her left-wing policy positions after becoming the Democratic presidential nominee. But the vice president’s willingness to fund Legal Aid DC as recently as 2023 could raise questions about her ties to controversial progressive activists — including after Harris selected Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), who has been widely criticized over his response to the 2020 riots in Minnesota, as her running mate.
Formed in 1932, Legal Aid DC calls itself “the district’s oldest and largest civil legal services organization” helping to “make justice real in individual and systemic ways.” In 2020, as riots shook cities across the United States in the wake of George Floyd’s death, Legal Aid DC published a statement on its website by project coordinator Adam Jacobs noting that it “stands in solidarity with those speaking out, demonstrating, and demanding a country and society that will treat every one of its residents with dignity and respect.”
Days later, in June 2020, the left-wing group’s housing law attorney Amanda Korber was quoted in a story pressing for fewer police officers in the district. Legal Aid DC shared the article on social media, writing, “As Legal Aid’s Amanda Korber noted in the article, we are concerned, especially given the ongoing protest movement, about any solution that involves more police and policing in DC public housing. #BlackLivesMatterDC.”
The money from Harris came after the group worked desperately to make the nation’s capital a permanent sanctuary city. Legal Aid DC pushed for a law in Washington, D.C. that restricts cooperation between U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and local agencies.
Adam Jacobs, Legal Aid DC’s project coordinator, claimed that the law “could lift some of the terror our immigrant neighbors and their families have faced for many years.”
In fact, he believed the radical law protecting illegal immigration didn’t go far enough. Jacobs said that the legislation was “flawed” because it has a “loophole in the current version of the bill which would only protect immigrants from being detained due to contact with MPD and the DC jail–but not if a person is released at the DC courthouse.”
Since Kamala Harris became the Democratic nominee for president, she has faced intense criticism over her support for the Black Lives Matter protests in 2021. At one point during the 2020 campaign, the vice president endorsed the Minnesota Freedom Fund, which posted bail for individuals accused of crimes including murder and sexual assault.
Kamala: “Everybody needs to be woke”
The ads write themselves these days.
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) August 5, 2024
Picking Tim Walz as her running mate only showed that she intends to double down on wokeness. Walz, 60, was the governor during the 2020 riots in Minneapolis and St. Paul burned. His handling of the situation has also come under scrutiny, adding to the controversy surrounding Harris’s campaign.
Crazy footage from Gaza 👇
Sorry for the typo, this is Tim Walz’s Minnesota.
pic.twitter.com/OdibCLyiAV— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) August 7, 2024
Some have noted that, under Harris’s encouragement and Walz’s leadership, Minnesota looked more like Gaza than the United States.
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