In 2018, Harris joined Rep. Pramila Jayapal in sponsoring the Detention Oversight Not Expansion Act - a plan to dramatically reshape immigration detention and limit the power Immigration and Customs Enforcement currently has to detain illegal aliens.
Among the most radical elements, Harris's DONE Act would have banned ICE from expanding immigration detention, regardless of illegal immigration levels.
"Interior enforcement would in fact be done and nullified if she takes office." Another piece of Harris's plan would require DHS to cut detention of illegal aliens by 50 percent.
Under Harris's plan, about 21,000 illegal aliens would have to be transferred out of custody and released into the U.S. interior with some federal monitoring.
Hauman told Breitbart News that Harris's plan would upend immigration detention.
"Her DONE Act would cut detention space as criminal aliens continue to roam free, ensure detention is no longer mandatory for illegal aliens, and actually prohibit the detention of illegal aliens deemed 'vulnerable' by the DHS secretary - a rubber stamp one of her nominees is sure to use," Hauman said.
In 2019, while running in the Democrat presidential primary, Harris told a crowd in Iowa City, Iowa, that she would close immigration detention facilities operated by private contractors who work with DHS. "When you become president, would you be committing to close the immigration detention centers?" a voter asked Harris, to which she responded, "Absolutely, on day one - on day one." The American Civil Liberties Union has estimated that about 9-in-10 illegal aliens held in DHS custody are housed in privately owned detention facilities.
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