WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris recently warned about her Republican rival’s plans to implement mass deportations.
Former President Donald Trump made immigration a central campaign issue and frequently demonized immigrants, such as Aurora, Coloradoand in Springfield, Ohio. Trump promised to carry out mass deportations immigrants in the country without permission.
“They have committed to the largest deportation, mass deportation, in American history,” Harris said during a speech at an event organized by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, a nonprofit offshoot of the congressional caucus.
AND Scripps News/Ipsos Poll A report released Wednesday found that a majority of Americans support mass deportations, including 58% of independents.
The survey found that 54% of respondents support mass deportations, with 86% of Republicans and 25% of Democrats supporting the idea.
Harris asked attendees at the 2024 Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Leadership Conference how they envisioned mass deportations being carried out.
“How will it happen, mass raids? Mass detention camps?” she said. “What are they talking about?”
Trump did not provide details of his proposal, even though I was asked about it In Presidential debate on September 10.
Harris said the United States should instead focus on reforming “our broken immigration system.”
“We can do both,” she said. “Create a legitimate path to citizenship and make sure our border is secure.”
Trump too called on Republicans from the House of Representatives on Wednesday to trigger a government shutdown if a provision requiring proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections is not included in a stopgap spending bill that would avert a government shutdown until Oct. 1.
Teamsters players refuse to support
On Wednesday, the General Board of the International Brotherhood of Professional Drivers made a decision do not support any of the candidates for president because “it found no clear support among members for any party’s candidate.”
“Unfortunately, neither major candidate has been able to make a serious commitment to our union to ensure that the interests of working people will always be put above Big Business,” Teamsters CEO Sean M. O’Brien said in a statement.
“We have sought commitments from both Trump and Harris that they will not interfere in key union campaigns or in major Teamsters-member industries — and that they will respect our members’ right to strike — but we have not been able to obtain those commitments,” he continued.
Harris made a surprise visit to the Teamsters’ Washington office this week.
After his candidacy failed to gain support, the Trump campaign issued a statement saying that “Teamsters members support Donald Trump for president.”
Relationship internal polls published As of Wednesday, members supported Trump by a margin of 58% to 31%. An earlier poll, conducted when President Joe Biden was still in the race, showed members supported Biden by a margin of 44.3% to Trump by a margin of 36.3%.
The union endorsed Biden in 2020 and traditionally supports Democrats.
On the trail
Candidates continue to hold events across the country.
Trump is scheduled to hold an evening rally in Uniondale, N.Y., his second live campaign event since his second assassination attempt at his Florida golf course over the weekend. He held town hall on Tuesday in Flint, Michigan.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, announced slow Tuesday that a bipartisan task force formed to investigate the July assassination attempt on Trump would expand on the alleged assassination attempt at the Republican presidential candidate’s golf club in Florida.
Trump’s vice presidential nominee, Ohio Senator J.D. Vance, gave a speech in Raleigh, North Carolina, slow Wednesday afternoon.
Thursday’s campaign schedule includes a day packed with public events for all key campaign figures.
- Harris is expected to stop in Detroit to campaign. She is then expected to return to Wisconsin.
- Trump is scheduled to attend a “Combating Anti-Semitism in America” event in Washington at 6:00 p.m. ET.
- Harris is expected to participate in the “Unite for America” livestream at 8 p.m. ET, hosted by Oprah Winfrey in partnership with Win With Black Women and more than 140 grassroots groups.
Inaugural Platform
Congressional leaders took part in a long-standing tradition by driving the first nail Wednesday on the stage where the 47th president will be sworn in on Jan. 20.
Members of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies participated in the First Nailing Ceremony, during which they took a hammer and drove previously prepared nails into wooden boards.
Senators on the committee include Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York, Senators Amy Klobuchar, Democrat of Minnesota, and Deb Fischer, Republican of Nebraska.
“At least this will be therapeutic,” Klobuchar joked, referring to the hammering.
The House lawmakers included Johnson and Majority Leader Steve Scalise, both Republicans from Louisiana, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, a Democrat from New York.
Scalise was the first lawmaker to finish driving the nail, followed by Johnson. Klobuchar was last, ending her final swing of the hammer with laughter.
It will take about six months to build the platform where the ceremony will take place, said Architect of the Capitol Thomas Austin.
