A guide to Kamala Harris's policies on policing, health care, climate change, and more
Photo: Ethan Miller/Getty Images On Tuesday, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden finally announced that his running mate will be California senator Kamala Harris. She is a 55-year-old accomplished politician and prosecutor, as well as the first Black woman and South Asian woman to run on a major party ticket. She’s also running alongside a 78-year-old man who, if he wins, will be the oldest U.S. president ever elected.
Harris has also drawn criticism for creating and boasting about an anti-truancy program during her time as San Francisco’s DA, where her office issued citations to parents whose children missed more than 50 days of school, warning them of possible prosecution.
Last July, Harris and New York representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced a plan for legislation that would ensure that new environmental bills are evaluated based on how they impact frontline communities. And during her time as San Francisco DA, Harris created an environmental-justice unit within her office to address environmental crimes that disproportionately affect poor communities of color.
Immigration On the campaign trail, Harris, who is the daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants, said that if elected she’d use her executive powers to reinstate and expand Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which gave 650,000 immigrants who came to the United States as children the legal right to live and work in the U.S. . Harris also said she’d create a path to citizenship for people protected under DACA, known as “Dreamers.
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