Kamala Harris’ father warned that immigration was bad for black workers
There is at least one Harris who doesn’t believe in open borders.
Donald Harris, an emeritus professor at Stanford University, issued a warning against mass immigration of low-skilled workers in a 1988 treatise he co-authored titled “Black Economic Progress: An Agenda for the 1990s.”
Harris, now 86, was unequivocal at the time.
“Trends in international trade have moved against U.S. workers,” he wrote. “U.S. immigration laws have been modified in ways that increase the influx of low-skilled workers, who compete with native-born youths and low-skilled adult workers for low-skilled jobs.
“This shift has been a particularly serious problem for blacks, who constitute a high proportion of the low-skilled adult workers,” according to the book.
Harris, a Marxist economist, lives just a two miles away from his daughter in Washington D.C., but the two rarely speak.
The chilly relations stretch back to Harris’ divorce from Kamala’s mother in 1972 — and his losing a bitter custody battle.
The book, published just two years after the 1986 immigrant amnesty law signed by then-President Ronald Reagan, is typical of far-left economic thinking on immigration.
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders was once a sharp critic of mass migration and blasted open borders as a “Koch brothers proposal.”
“It would make everybody in America poorer,” Sanders told lefty columnist Ezra Klein in 2015.
Vice President Harris has supported granting illegal aliens “pathways to citizenship” — and continues to make the idea a pillar of her 2024 presidential race.
The US Citizenship Act of 2021, which the Biden-Harris administration introduced on their first day in office, would have granted legal status to millions of illegal aliens currently living in the United States.
“The influx of illegal immigrants and thus low-skilled labor advocated by Harris/Walz, exacerbates inequalities by driving down wages and creating competition among those already marginalized, particularly black Americans,” black GOP political consultant Shermichael Singleton told The Post.
“The welfare of native-born citizens, particularly those who have historically faced injustices like black Americans — must come first. The problem with illegal immigration isn’t merely economic but existential.”
The Harris campaign and professor Harris both did not respond to request for comment from The Post.
