Kamala Harris Quotes Her GOP Colleagues To Make The Case Against Trumps Executive Orders

[sheshe2]

During her first official speech on the Senate floor, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) quoted several pro-immigrant comments by her Republican colleagues and challenged them to “measure up” to their words.

Harris spent the bulk of her remarks challenging President Donald Trump’s temporary bans on all refugees and visitors from seven Muslim-majority countries, as well as his executive orders vowing to crack down on undocumented immigrants and the communities that shield them from deportation. Near the end of her speech, she noted the importance of bipartisanship in challenging these policies, and cited the words of three GOP senators ― Ted Cruz (Texas), Rand Paul (Ky.) and John McCain (Ariz.) ― to make her point.

“I know, having spent now a few weeks in this chamber, that we have good men and women on both sides of the aisle, men and women who believe deeply in our immigrant communities and who understand that nationalism and patriotism are not the same thing,” she said.

She then quoted Cruz, whose father immigrated to the U.S. from Cuba, as saying, “It’s an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.”

Harris cited Paul’s 2013 speech at Howard University, during which he pressed the importance of enforcing “constitutional rights of all Americans ― rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white.”

More: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kamala-harris-immigration-speech_us_58a61b90e4b07602ad52f18d?ecv6lb4rgpfmbzkt9&

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It is time for the GOP to put up or shut up and remain irrelevant for all eternity. You spoke those words...did you mean them?

[yallerdawg]

1. Keeping an eye on Kamala Harris.

She's 'Obama-fresh,' you know!

[sheshe2]

3. She will be awesome wherever she ends up.

Fresh face just like Obama, ya never know.

[dhill926]

2. that's how you do it...

make them eat their fucking words. She has a very bright future....

[sheshe2]

4. She sure does, dhill.

She has places to go and things to do.