‘Laughable’: Victim of Illegal Immigrant Attack Slams Harris’s Record as California Prosecutor
29th July 2024
A San Francisco resident who was attacked by an illegal immigrant in 2008 blamed the incident on then-district attorney Kamala Harris’s soft-on-crime policies, scoffing at the vice president’s record as a California prosecutor in an interview with ABC Monday.
In July 2008, Amanda Kiefer was attacked and run down in San Francisco by 20-year-old Alexander Izaguirre, an illegal immigrant from Honduras, leaving her with a fractured skull. Izaguirre was arrested months earlier on drug charges but released thanks to then-district attorney Harris’s Back on Track initiative, a soft-on-crime policy that allowed young nonviolent drug offenders to avoid jail by enrolling in a 12-month community service program.
As the presumptive Democratic nominee, Harris has touted her record as a “tough prosecutor” along the campaign trail, but Kiefer called that message “laughable,” ABC reported.