Kamala Harris’ father warned that immigration was bad for black workers

There’s at least one Harris who doesn’t believe in open borders.

Donald Harris, A Emeritus Professor at Stanford UniversityIn 1988, he warned against mass immigration of low-skilled workers in a treatise he co-authored titled “Black Economic Progress: An Agenda for the 1990s”.

Harris, now 86, was candid at the time.

“The trend in international trade has turned against American workers,” he wrote. “US immigration laws have been modified in a way that increases the influx of low-skilled workers, who compete with native-born youth and low-skilled adult workers for low-skilled jobs.

According to the book, “This shift has been a particularly acute problem for blacks, who make up a large share of the low-skilled adult workforce.”

Harris, a Marxist economist, lives just two miles from his daughter in Washington, DC, but the two rarely speak.

Relations have soured since Harris divorced Kamala’s mother in 1972 and lost a bitter custody battle.

This book was published exactly two years later 1986 immigrant amnesty The law, signed by then-President Ronald Reagan, is typical of far-left economic thinking on immigration.

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders was once a sharp critic of mass migration and described open borders as “the Koch brothers’ proposal.”

“It will make everyone in America poorer,” Sanders Leftist columnist Ezra Klein reported in 2015.

Vice President Harris has supported giving illegal aliens a “pathway to citizenship” – and is continuing to make the idea a pillar of her 2024 presidential race.

The US Citizenship Act of 2021, introduced by the Biden-Harris administration on its first day in office, would have provided legal status to millions of illegal aliens currently living in the United States.

Black GOP political consultant Shermichael Singleton told The Post, “The influx of illegal immigrants and thus low-skilled labor, supported by Harris/Walz, is driving down wages and upending the lives of already marginalized people, especially Black Americans. “It increases inequalities by creating competition.”

“The welfare of Native citizens, especially those who have historically faced injustice such as Black Americans – must come first. The problem of illegal immigration is not just economic but existential.”

Both the Harris campaign and Professor Harris did not respond to The Post’s requests for comment.