In a 1988 treatise he co-authored titled “Black Economic Progress: An Agenda for the 1990s,” US vice president Kamala Harris' father Donald Harris issued a warning against mass immigration of low-skilled workers and its effects on black Americans.
“Trends in international trade have moved against U.S. workers,” Harris, an emeritus professor at Stanford University, wrote. “U.S. immigration laws have been modified in ways that increase the influx of low-skilled workers, who compete with native-born youths and low-skilled adult workers for low-skilled jobs. This shift has been a particularly serious problem for blacks, who constitute a high proportion of the low-skilled adult workers.”
Open borders and mass illegal immigration pushed in the west by left-wing globalists like billionaire George Soros, have come under sharp criticisms from the populist right and conservatives who accuse the left of undermining societal cohesion and economic welfare of citizens with such destructive policies.
Immigration restriction policies have not always been only advocated on the populist right. Donald Harris' book, published just two years after the 1986 immigrant amnesty law signed by then-President Ronald Reagan, was typical of far-left economic thinking on immigration.
However in recent years, woke left-wing activists and politicians have embraced mass illegal immigration. Kamala Harris has supported granting illegal aliens “pathways to citizenship” -- and continues to make the idea a pillar of her 2024 presidential race, in sharp contrast to her opponent and former president Donald Trump who is explicitly against open border policies.
The US Citizenship Act of 2021, which the Biden-Harris administration introduced on their first day in office, would have granted legal status to millions of illegal aliens currently living in the United States.
Kamala Harris has also come under criticism for her Marxist political leaning which was influenced by her father Donald who is a Marxist economist. The two reportedly rarely speak recently, even though they live about 3 kilometers apart in Washington D.C.
The chilly relations between Donald Harris, 86, and Kamala reportedly stretch back to his divorce from the vice president's mother in 1972, and losing a bitter custody battle that ensued.
