Kamala Harris in National Public Radio

On Crime: Not tough nor soft crime: must be smart on crime

She tells NPR that it's a "false choice" to suggest that someone is either tough on crime or soft on crime. "If you want to deal with an epidemic--crime or health--the smartest and most effective and cheapest way to deal with it is prevention first," she says. "If you're dealing with it in the emergency room or the prison system, it is too late and it is too expensive. We have to be smart on crime." Source: NPR Morning Edition, "Election 2020: Opening Arguments" Mar 14, 2019

On Immigration: Due process & right to counsel, for asylum seekers

My first bill in the United States Senate was Access to Counsel Act to ensure that nobody would be denied access to counsel when they're going through these hearings around refugee status and around asylum. I disagree with any policy that would turn America's back on people who are fleeing harm. I would not enforce a law that would reject people and turn them away without giving them a fair and due process to determine if we should give them asylum and refuge. Source: NPR Morning Edition: Election 2020 Special Series Mar 14, 2019

On Crime: No on capital punishment, but justice for murderers

If she were president, no one would be executed in the U.S. for any crime--not even treason. She adds, though, "I absolutely and strongly believe there should be serious and swift consequence when one human being kills another human being. ... I am unequivocal in that belief. So let's be very clear about that. There should be justice." Source: NPR Morning Edition: Election 2020 Special Series Mar 14, 2019

On Civil Rights: Reparations raise a public health issue

If we start to examine what have been the outcomes of the history of slavery and legal segregation and discrimination, when people have experienced trauma, and it has been undiagnosed and untreated, you will see certain public health outcomes. And so if you recognize the trauma that existed, and we want to end what are avoidable health outcomes, you need to put resources--and direct resources, extra resources--into those communities that have experienced that trauma." Source: NPR Morning Edition, "Election 2020: Opening Arguments" Mar 14, 2019

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