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Katherine Harris has supported Amnesty for Illegals. Her record on Immigration issues is not 100% Conservative.

Voted for temporary amnesty for certain Central Americans Rep. Harris voted against the Tancredo Amendment to H.R. 5441, the fiscal year 2007 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) appropriations bill. The Tancredo Amendment would prohibit funds appropriated by H.R. 5441 from being used to administer extensions of the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) amnesty for Guatemalans, Hondurans, or Nicaraguans.
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2006/roll222.xml

Cosponsored H.R. 3142 to grant amnesty to illegal aliens. Rep. Harris cosponsored H.R. 3142 to reward certain illegal aliens working in agriculture with amnesty.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:HR03142:

Voted no on reporting illegal aliens who receive hospital treatment on H.R.3722
To amend section 1011 of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 to impose conditions on Federal reimbursement of emergency health services furnished to undocumented aliens.>br> Undocumented Alien Emergency Medical Assistance Amendments of 2004 - Amends the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 to: (1) prohibit Federal reimbursement of hospital-provided emergency and certain transportation services to undocumented aliens unless the hospital provides the Secretary of Homeland Security with information regarding an alien's citizenship, immigration status, financial data, and employer; (2) make the employer of certain undocumented aliens responsible for such costs; and (3) direct the Secretary to initiate removal procedures against an alien determined to be removable under Federal immigration law.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:h.r.03722:

Voted in favor of rewarding illegal aliens from Mexico with Social Security benefits in 2004

Rep. Harris voted against the Hayworth Amendment (H. AMDT 745) to H.R. 5006, the Labor, HHS, Education Appropriations bill. The amendment would have prohibited any funding in the bill from being used to pay Social Security Administration (SSA) employees to administer any benefits that would not be payable but for a totalization agreement with Mexico. The effect of this would be to prevent the U.S.-Mexico totalization agreement from taking effect -- at least during FY 2005 -- since SSA employees could not be paid for any work they do to determine or pay benefits under the agreement. The U.S.-Mexico totalization agreement would allow both legal AND illegal aliens working in the United States to qualify for Social Security benefits.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:HZ00745:

Voted in favor of sanctuary policies for illegal aliens in 2005

Rep. Harris voted against an amendment (H. Admt. 138) to H.R. 2360, the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2006. The amendment would deny federal homeland security funding to who refuse to share information with Federal immigration authorities from being states and local governments who refuse to share information with Federal immigration authorities. The amendment, offered by Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO), would have created a huge incentive to rescind the policies that protect illegal aliens, criminal aliens, and, potentially, terrorists, by denying them some Federal funding. Sanctuary policies bar public officials, including police officers, from asking an individual's immigration status to determine eligibility for public services and from reporting illegal aliens to federal authorities. In 1996, Congress passed a law that specifically prohibits state and local governments from enacting sanctuary policies. Despite that, cities such as San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and Houston, still have sanctuary policies in place. Maine is the only state with a sanctuary policy.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/D?d109:11:./temp/~bduLDJ:

Voted against amendment to fund program to deny driver's licenses to illegal aliens in 2005

Rep. Harris voted against the Obey amendment ( H. Amdt. 144) to H.R. 2360, the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations bill. The Obey amendment provided $100 million to fund grants under the REAL ID Act to assist States in conforming with minimum drivers’ license standards. The Obey amendment passed by a vote of 226-198.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:HZ00144:

Americans for Better Immigration gave Katherine Harris a Career Grade of C+

Representative Harris supported the interests of the National Council of La Raza 50 percent in 2004.