When Vice President Kamala Harris was a 24-year-old law student San Francisco, her father, a Marxist economics professor at Stanford University, published a critique of immigration policies hurting black families.
Harris and six of his like-minded colleagues argued in 1988 that “the current immigration policy, which allows relatively large numbers of low-skilled workers to enter the United States” translates into a “burden … on low-skilled native-born workers,” and black families in particular, Restoration News reports. “At the same time that the trends in international trade have moved against U.S. workers, U.S. immigration laws have been modified in ways that increase the influx of low-skilled workers, who compete with native-born youths and low-skilled adult workers for low-skilled jobs,” the pamphlet read. “This shift has been a particularly serious problem for blacks, who constitute a high proportion of the low-skilled adult workers.”
Fast forward 26 years, and Donald Harris’ 1988 pamphlet Black Economic Progress: An Agenda for the 1990s has become even more relevant as his daughter oversees the largest influx of migrants in the nation’s history.
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