On immigration, Kamala Harris is the anti-Sessions. And she's the first Democrat

to oppose any government funding bill unless Dreamers are protected.

THANK YOU, KAMALA HARRIS!

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/11/1/16554958/kamala-harris-immigration-california

Last week, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) laid down a marker that's been lost in the intervening crush of news but could prove enormously important in December. She became the first Senate Democrat to publicly vow to oppose any government funding bill unless Congress takes action to protect the 700,000 DREAMers rendered newly vulnerable by President Donald Trump.

“I will not vote for an end-of-year spending bill until we are clear about what we are going to do to protect and take care of our DACA young people in this country,” Harris said at a press conference. "Each day in the life of these young people is a very long time, and we've got to stop playing politics with their lives."

The unexpected move helped cement Harris’s burgeoning reputation as the most outspoken ally of immigration activists on the Hill. Most Senate Democrats, like many Senate Republicans, have promised to push for a deal to protect the DREAMers. But beyond Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (D-IL), few Democrats in Congress have publicly adopted the line of the immigration activists themselves — that the government should be shut down this December without a legislative guarantee that the DREAMers get to stay.

Harris is now the first senator — and certainly the most high-profile politician in the country — to take that demand and make it her own. And both immigrant rights groups and their conservative opponents are taking notice.

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