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Why You Shouldn't Support Kamala Harris For The Upcoming 2020 Election: a thread
1. She supported a law that forces schools to turn undocumented students over to ICE, separating them from their parents.

source: m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5c…
2. Supported and funded a bill that would criminalize truancy, disproportionately harming single parent households, the poor, families of color and homeless mothers.

source: huffpost.com/entry/kamala-h…
Example of a family of color affected by this:

Example of a homeless mother affected by this:

3. Declined to prosecute Steven Mnuchin after his bank’s predatory lending and foreclosure fraud broke the law “over a thousand” times and ruined the lives of thousands of homeowners.

source: theintercept.com/2017/01/03/tre…
...he later donated to her campaign

source: rollcall.com/news/politics/…
...and became Trump's Treasury Secretary

source: thedailybeast.com/harriet-tubman…
4. She spent years jailing disproportionately black nonviolent cannabis users

source: afropunk.com/2019/01/kamala…
...she then tried to pander by admitting to smoking herself despite prosecuting others

source: marijuanamoment.net/kamala-harriss…
5. Stopped the release of a man serving 27 years-to-life after being wrongfully convicted of possession of a knife under the three-strikes law she supported.

source: jacobinmag.com/2017/08/kamala…
...and when civil rights groups and nearly 100,000 petition signatures got him released after 14 years she took him back to court again for a crime he didn’t commit

source: scpr.org/news/2013/07/3…
6. Opposed reforming California’s three-strikes law, which is the only one in the country to impose life sentences for minor felonies and incarcerates black people at 12x the rate as white people

source: thenation.com/article/reform…
...she opposed the law THREE different times

source: nytimes.com/2016/05/29/mag…
7. Protected serial child rapists by refusing to prosecute in the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal

source: theintercept.com/2019/06/09/kam…
8. Tried to deny a transgender inmate healthcare and endangered trans women by forcing them into mens prisons.

source: washingtonblade.com/2015/05/05/har…
...which lead up to the torture and rape of trans inmates

source: theappeal.org/incarcerated-t…
9. Stood by silently as $730 million was spent on moving inmates to for-profit private prisons

source: mercurynews.com/2013/08/29/mer…
10. Voted two different times to block federal funding for abortions

source: politico.com/newsletters/pl…
11. She supports Trump escalating war in Syria

source: thegrayzone.com/2019/05/24/bip…
12. Voted to give Trump increased military spending

source: votesmart.org/bill/23430/610…
...she did that TWICE:

votesmart.org/bill/25215/642…
13. Mocks the activist call to “build more schools, less jails”

source:
14. Accepted thousands of dollars of campaign funds from Donald and Ivanka Trump multiple times

source: sacbee.com/news/politics-…
15. Opposed legalization of sex work

source: laweekly.com/news/a-new-mov…
...endangered sex workers

source: esquire.com/lifestyle/sex/…
...and oversaw people being charged for prostitution without even agreeing to sex

source: archives.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/s…
16. Refused to investigate Herbalife’s exploitation and fraud

source: freebeacon.com/politics/kamal…
...and, conveniently enough, later received donations from people connected to the corporation

source: pastemagazine.com/articles/2019/…
17. Refused to prosecute PG&E for its massive gas pipeline explosion

source: nytimes.com/2019/02/23/us/…
...and now its consultants are running her campaign

source: politico.com/story/2019/01/…
18. Is a latecomer in endorsing Medicare for All and already appears to be backtracking on it

source: cnn.com/2019/01/29/pol…
19. Supports foreign right-wing influences Netanyahu and AIPAC

theintercept.com/2018/03/07/kam…
20. Systematically violated defendants’ civil and constitutional rights” in crime lab scandal

source: washingtonpost.com/politics/crime…
21. Co-sponsored the bill that let Trump impose sanctions on Iran

source: congress.gov/bill/115th-con…
...which violated the nuclear deal and lead to the currently rising tensions

source: thinkprogress.org/media-outlets-…
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CREDIT TO --> @westonpagano

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