As Kamala Harris turns to the political center in her presidential campaign, a 2019 questionnaire from a leading civil rights organization highlights her past support for left-leaning causes such as taxpayer-funded gender reassignment surgeries for detained immigrants and federal prisoners.

In an American Civil Liberties Union questionnaire then-Sen. Harris filled in as a 2020 presidential candidate, she also expressed support for decriminalizing federal drug possession for personal use and for sweeping reductions in Immigration and Custom Enforcement operations, including drastic cuts to ICE funding and an open promise to “end” immigration detention.

The questionnaire has received little media attention, and an ACLU spokesman claimed it had been running as of 2019.

But the ACLU’s website upload and page source indicates the questionnaire was reposted last month after Harris became the presumptive Democratic nominee. CNN was unable to locate questionnaires filled out by other candidates from the 2020 campaign that the ACLU had reposted.

Harris has acknowledged that some of her positions have evolved over time but that she has core beliefs that remain steadfast: “My values ​​haven’t changed,” she said in an interview with CNN last month.

The ACLU questionnaire, which was sent to all Democratic and Republican candidates during the 2020 presidential campaign, provides a clear record of Harris’ progressive positions. Some candidates did not respond to the questionnaire, including Joe Biden. The ACLU later ran radio ads attacking Biden for does not respond.

The ACLU also had volunteers question candidates at public town halls and later released videos on their website of their answers.

During a town hall event in New Hampshire in April 2019, Harris was asked by a voter if she supports adding a “third gender” to federal ID cards.

“Sure,” Harris answered to an applause from the audience. “I’ve been an ally all my life and career and I see the issue of LGBTQ rights as a fundamental civil rights and human rights issue, period,” Harris said.

In his response, Harris also attacked the Trump administration’s efforts to ban transgender troops in the military, calling it “outrageous.”

“These are people who have decided that they are willing to sacrifice and serve for the sake of our democracy and our freedom, and you’re going to kick them out of the military?” Harris said.

The ACLU told CNN it does not plan to send another questionnaire to Harris this election.

The Harris campaign did not respond to questions from CNN about whether she continued to support those positions, instead issuing a statement that could only be attributed to an unnamed “Harris campaign adviser” that said: “The vice president’s positions have been shaped by three years of effective governance as a part of the Biden-Harris Administration.”

They declined to elaborate on what her positions were.

They also provided a comment attributed to a Harris campaign spokesperson who said, “As president, she will take the same pragmatic approach and focus on common sense solutions for progress.”

Immigration

Harris’ sharpest contrast to her current positions may be her new tough immigration rhetoric versus what she told the ACLU.

When asked about criminal justice reform in the questionnaire, she wrote that she would end immigration detention (along with private prisons). Harris also said she supported reduced funding for ICE.

“Our immigration detention system is out of control, and I believe we must end the unjust incarceration of thousands of individuals, families and children,” Harris wrote. “I was one of the first senators after President Trump was elected to advocate cutting funding to ICE.”

Harris seems to be quoting her efforts 2017 to oppose increased ICE funding under Trump.

Harris wrote it in 2018 she had introduced Detention Oversight, Not Expansion (KLAR) act to “increase oversight of Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities, reduce detention by at least 50%, and stop funding the construction or expansion of new facilities.”

Harris also pledged to end the use of ICE detainers — the request by ICE to local or state law enforcement agencies to hold an individual up to 48 hours after their release date so that ICE can take them into custody for possible deportation.

Under the Trump administration, ICE aggressively targeted undocumented immigrants, including asylum seekers, for detention and deportation. Under the administration’s “zero tolerance” policyICE be expanded its use of detention centers, was carried out more workplace raids and increased arrests of undocumented immigrants without criminal records.

The Biden-Harris administration continued to issue requests for prisoners, but the rate fell sharply in the months following the inauguration in January 2021, according to data from Syracuse University.

Harris also noted that as California’s Attorney General, she had issued guidance says local law enforcement agencies would not have to follow such inmates.

“As president, I will focus enforcement on increasing public safety, not tearing apart immigrant families. This includes requiring ICE to obtain a probable cause warrant to stop the use of detainers,” she wrote.

ICE had clashed with many so-called sanctuary cities that limited their cooperation during the Trump presidency. In response, the Trump administration attempted to do so withhold certain federal grants and increased efforts to circumvent local authorities to detain and deport undocumented immigrants.

As San Francisco’s district attorney, Harris supported immigrant rights by defending the city’s sanctuary status, saying, “We are a sanctuary city, a sanctuary city, and we always will be.”

But Harris also supported a policy that would turn undocumented immigrant youth over to federal authorities if they were arrested for suspected crimes, regardless of conviction.

As California’s attorney general, Harris targeted criminal gangs operating across the US-Mexico border. She also expressed support for undocumented immigrants who were not considered a threat to public safety, and opposed Obama-era policies that could send non-criminal undocumented immigrants to deportation proceedings.

Transgender rights

Harris also wrote that she supported taxpayer funding of gender reassignment surgeries for detained immigrants and federal prisoners.

Harris was asked if, as president, she would use “executive authority to ensure that transgender and non-binary people who rely on the state for medical care — including those in prison and immigration detention — will have access to comprehensive treatment related to gender transition including all necessary surgical care.”

Harris replied, “Yes.”

“It is important that transgender people who rely on the state for care receive the treatment they need, which includes access to treatment associated with gender transition,” Harris wrote in a response expanding on her response. “That’s why, as Attorney General, I pushed the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to provide gender reassignment surgery to state prisoners,” she wrote.

Harris stated that she supported giving prisoners and inmates access to “surgical care” for gender reassignment.

“Transitional care is a medical necessity, and I will direct all federal agencies responsible for providing the necessary medical care to deliver transitional care,” she wrote.

The first-ever gender-affirming surgery in federal prison occurred only recently in 2022 after years of legal battles.

Harris’ response marked a shift from her previous position as California attorney general, when she defended the California Department of Corrections’ efforts to deny gender reassignment surgery.

When Harris ran for president in 2019, Harris faced criticism over the previous position.

On a news conference and later an LGBTQ forum that year, Harris said defending the policy was “contrary to my beliefs”, but she was obliged to defend the policy while “working behind the scenes” to change it.

Drug

Harris also indicated that she supported the decriminalization of all drug possession for personal use.

While Harris indicated she supported drug legalization, her response focused solely on marijuana, citing her co-sponsorship of the Marijuana Justice Act, which sought to federally legalize marijuana.

She explained that drug use should be treated as a public health issue rather than a criminal one.

“Throughout my career, I have supported treating drug addiction as a public health issue, focusing on rehabilitation over incarceration for drug-related crimes,” she wrote.

During his 2019 campaign, Harris admitted smoking marijuana in the past in calling for its legalization.

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