A video has resurfaced showing Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris protesting against deporting migrants in 2018.
The video, obtained exclusively by the U.K. Daily Mail, shows the vice-president during her time as a California senator joining a group of protesters during a parade in Los Angeles, chanting, “Down, down with deportation.”
Harris, who is now promising to secure the border, was named the grand marshal of the 33rd annual parade, typically reserved to celebrate the legacy of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
Left-wing political activists instead used the parade to celebrate their own political cause, including the “Time’s Up” movement, featuring women who protested sexual harassment and discrimination in the workplace.
Immigration enforcement was brought up during the event, prompting Harris to join chants celebrating illegal immigration without consequences.
“Up, up with education, down, down with deportation!” she chanted enthusiastically with the group of activists at her side as she clapped her hands.
Harris was joined by members of her family, including her husband Doug Emhoff and his daughter Ella Emhoff, who filmed the event on her iPhone.
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Other prominent figures who joined her in the parade included one-time rising television star Jussie Smollett, who was featured in the show Empire, a fictional story about the struggle for control of a hip-hop production company.
Smollett held a young girl and joined Harris in the throng of protesters.
In January 2019, Smollett was found guilty of conducting a hoax hate crime after he falsely claimed he was jumped by two men wearing MAGA hats who poured bleach on him and wrapped a noose around his neck.
An appeal is currently before the Illinois Supreme Court.