In a reversal of the position she held during Donald Trump’s tenure in the White House, Vice President Kamala Harris has vowed to fund a wall along America’s border with Mexico if elected to the Presidency this November.
Harris’s promise to devote hundreds of millions of federal dollars to the project came during the Democratic National Convention during her speech accepting the party’s Presidential nomination, inherent in her pledge to sign a bipartisan border security bill that Trump has been pushing his supporters in Congress not to back.
Trump’s fear is that positive momentum on border security by a Democratic regime would hurt his chances at the November polls. But ironically, Harris’s support of the bill would enact one of Trump’s key unfulfilled campaign promises from 2016.
“It requires the Trump border wall,” Sen. James Lankford told Axios. The Republican from Oklahoma helped negotiate the legislation.
“It is in the bill itself that it sets the standards that were set during the Trump administration: Here’s where it will be built. Here’s how it has to be built, the height, the type, everything during the Trump construction,” he continued.
The bill allows for $650 million for the border wall, a far cry from the $18 billion Trump had asked for in 2018. The measure also includes money to pay asylum lawyers to try immigration cases and judges to hear them as it seeks to ease the burden on the immigration system.
While passing the bill would help build a wall, Harris still differs from Trump on other key campaign promises on immigration he has made for a second term as President, including mass deportations and a renewal of the family separation policy that is currently no longer in place.