Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday warned a gathering of Hispanic lawmakers and leaders that GOP rival Donald Trump’s proposed undocumented migrant deportation program could lead to “massive raids” and “detention camps.”
The Democratic presidential nominee made the remarks during an address to a Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute conference in Washington during which she largely vowed, if elected, to install policies that would help Hispanic and other voters keep more money that they earn. She also warned that Trump’s proposed policies, and those of congressional Republicans, would take their community and the country “backward.”
Harris was greeted warmly by the midday audience, but the room grew silent as she spoke of Project 2025, a blueprint for a second Trump administration developed by a group of his former advisers and other conservatives, as well as the Republican presidential nominee’s own anti-undocumented migrant words at campaign rallies and on social media.
