Job Program VICTIM CRITICIZES Harris

The presumed Democratic presidential nominee’s criminal history, according to a lady who was assaulted almost fatally by an undocumented immigrant shielded by San Francisco, California’s sanctuary city policy when Vice President Kamala Harris was the district attorney, is “laughable.”

 

Alexander Izaguirre, a 20-year-old undocumented immigrant, entered a guilty plea to distribute cocaine in San Francisco in 2008. Rather than being sent to prison or handed over to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) department, Izaguirre was placed in the “Back on Track” jobs program by former District Attorney (DA) Kamala Harris.

 

Created by Harris in 2005, the Back on Track program permits individuals between the ages of 18 and 30 to enter a plea of guilty to drug-related offenses in exchange for a year-long residency in the jobs program.

 

Izaguirre robbed 29-year-old Amanda Kiefer a few months after being put in Back on Track and then jumped into an SUV to run her over. Izaguirre struck Kiefer with the SUV, causing her to bleed from her ear and break her skull.

 

Now, fifteen years after the violent attack, Kiefer tells ABC News that, in light of what transpired, Harris’s attempts to project an image of a tough-on-crime prosecutor are “laughable.”

 

According to ABC News, Kiefer stated, “You wake up when a policy negatively affects you.”

“I think most Americans would disapprove of that if people who committed crimes were allowed to stay out of prison to train for jobs they couldn’t legally hold,” Kiefer said to ABC News. 

 

Regarding Kiefer, the violent attack she had was what she referred to as her “red pill moment”; this is a reference to a pill in the motion picture “The Matrix” that allows users to perceive harsh reality.

 

It wasn’t until 2009, a year later, that Harris acknowledged Kiefer’s violent assault, telling the Los Angeles Times that “the Izaguirre case, obviously is a huge kind of pimple on the face of [the Back on Track] program.”

 

Harris told the Times, “I don’t mean to trivialize it or to cover it up.” 

 

Rather than sending them to jail or handing them over to ICE authorities, Harris had placed Izaguirre and other illegal aliens into Back on Track, according to the Times. Izaguirre and other undocumented immigrants had, in essence, been kept out of jail by Harris’ office by training them for occupations they are not legally allowed to hold.

 

Todd Bensman of the Center for Immigration Studies has referred to Harris as an “immigration extremist,” pointing out that she has a history of opposing the detention of undocumented immigrants by ICE, advocating for the agency’s complete elimination, and arguing that crossing international boundaries illegally is not a crime.