There’s at least one Harris who doesn’t believe in open borders.
Donald Harris, a professor emeritus at Stanford University, warned against mass immigration of low-skilled workers in a 1988 paper he co-authored entitled “Black Economic Progress: A Challenge for the 1990s.” did.
Mr. Harris, now 86, was in no doubt at the time.
“Trends in international trade are moving against American workers,” he wrote. “U.S. immigration laws are being revised to increase the influx of low-skilled workers, who compete for low-skilled jobs with native-born youth and low-skilled adult workers.
According to the book, “this shift is particularly acute for black people, who make up a high proportion of low-skilled adult workers.”
Harris, a Marxist economist, lives just two miles from her daughter in Washington, D.C., but the two rarely speak.
The strained relationship dates back to 1972, when Harris divorced Kamala’s mother and lost a bitter custody battle.
The book, published just two years after the 1986 Immigration Amnesty Act signed by then-President Ronald Reagan, epitomizes far-left economic thinking on immigration.
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has previously been harshly critical of mass immigration, slamming open borders as a “Koch brothers proposal.”
“That would make all Americans poorer,” Sanders told left-handed columnist Ezra Klein in 2015.
Vice President Harris supports giving illegal aliens a “path to citizenship,” and continues to make the idea a mainstay of her 2024 presidential campaign.
The U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021, introduced by the Biden-Harris administration on its first day in office, was supposed to give legal status to the millions of undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States.
Black Republican political consultant Sharmichael Singleton said, “The illegal immigration and associated influx of low-skilled labor advocated by Harris and Walz would drive down wages and increase the burden on already marginalized people, especially Black Americans. “It exacerbates inequality by creating competition between them,” he told the Post.
“The welfare of native-born citizens, especially those who have historically faced injustice like black Americans, must be prioritized. The problem of illegal immigration is not just an economic one, but an existential one. It’s a thing.”
Neither the Harris campaign nor Professor Harris responded to The Post’s requests for comment.
