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In 2020, then-Sen. Kamala Harris was among the 10 Democratic senators who signed a letter to former Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf, accusing the Trump administration of violating federal law in using the pandemic as justification for closing the border with Mexico.
As vice president, however, she now supports that provision, Politico reports.
The Biden administration has continued to use the Trump-era policy, often dubbed Title 42 in reference to the U.S. code, to effectively seal the border. It does so under the argument that migrants trying to cross could pose a health risk during the Covid outbreak.
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Or so Politico reports. Last year, Donald Trump closed the southern border, citing the pandemic and the need to contain it, but Kamala Harris and other Democrats accused Trump of using COVID-19 as a pretext. In an open letter to then-acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf, Harris and her co-signers declared that “a public health crisis does not give the Executive Branch a free pass to violate constitutional rights.”
Apparently, that’s easy enough to write from the cheap seats:
Months before the election, then-Senator Kamala Harris signed on to a letter with fellow Democrats accusing the Trump administration of violating federal law when it took the drastic step of citing the pandemic to close down the Mexican border.
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In this July 27, 2020, file photo, federal police face off with protesters in front of the Mark O. Hatfield federal courthouse in downtown Portland, Oregon. (CNN)The Trump administration s Department of Homeland Security surged hundreds of federal agents to Portland, Oregon, last summer with incomplete training and missing equipment, a new watchdog report says.
The department s inspector general flagged several major concerns with the deployment of more than 700 officers, including failure to properly train them to police riots and to conduct crowd control operations, raising concerns of increased risk to both officers and the public.
Tensions grew in Portland over the summer after federal officers arrived in the city, which had experienced prolonged and at times violent protests over demands for racial justice and police accountability.
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Andrew Wheeler, a former Environmental Protection Agency administrator, is joining the Heritage Foundation as a visiting fellow.
Wheeler will start in his role on Monday and will advise the conservative think tank about the economic and environmental effects of energy production, environmental regulations, and climate change.
“The Heritage Foundation has been a conservative steward in Washington, D.C., for decades, and I am deeply honored to join this well-respected team as we work together to advance conservative values with policies that will benefit all Americans,” Wheeler said of his new role.
Wheeler served as a special assistant in the EPA’s Pollution Prevention and Toxics Office from 1991 to 1995 before working on Capitol Hill with the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. Prior to his joining former President Donald Trump’s administration, he was a principal at Faegre Baker Daniels Consulting, where he worked as an energy lobbyis
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