Harris Refuses to Say Whether or Not She’ll Close Private Prisons

Vice President Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), the Democratic Party’s nominee for President, has refused to say whether or not she still supports shutting down all private prisons as she did in previous elections.

According to the Washington Free Beacon, Harris previously vowed to close private prisons during her 2016 campaign for the U.S. Senate, declaring them to be “morally wrong” and “a rotten deal for American taxpayers.” When she first tried to run for President in 2020, she reaffirmed her stance by saying that it is “necessary to end the profit motive that drives these private prisons, as it is inhumane to profit off of imprisonment.”

However, Harris has been noticeably silent on this and other past far-left stances, as she attempts to appeal to moderate voters with just 33 days left until the election. The overall immigration issue appears to be the primary cause for her numerous flip-flops, as the private prisons issue is tied directly to the border crisis: Of the 30,000 illegal aliens that are currently being held in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), over 90% are being contained in private facilities.

Harris has reversed herself on numerous matters concerning immigration; she has recently said that she no longer opposes a border wall and has also walked back her prior vow to provide amnesty to over two million illegals. Other far-left stances she has since done an about-face on include Medicare for All and banning fracking.

Former President Donald Trump, the Republican nominee, acknowledged Harris’ numerous reversals in an interview in August, saying that she is “flip-flopping on everything that she’s believed in for the last 20 years.”

“In history, on occasion, somebody will go back on one major policy and they’ll change,” said President Trump. “She’s gone back on every single thing she’s ever said.”

Immigration is consistently ranked as one of the top two biggest areas of concern for most voters, alongside the economy. On both issues, voters overwhelmingly trust President Trump more than Vice President Harris.