By NIELS LESNIEWSKI and BRIDGET BOWMAN

Donald Trump received less than a third of the votes cast for president by California voters, and that’s something the state’s new senator, Kamala Harris, is well aware of.

Harris, the former state attorney general, had already spoken up on the Senate floor against the nominations of Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos by the time she gave her more traditional “maiden speech” Thursday. The freshman Democrat started by recounting how her mother, an Indian immigrant, chose to marry her Jamaican father in the U.S. instead of returning to India for an arranged marriage.

“This act of self-determination made my sister Maya and myself, and it made us Americans, like millions of immigrants before and since,” Harris said. “I know she’s looking down on us today. And, knowing my mother, she’s probably saying, ‘Kamala, what on earth is going on down there?’”

Harris then took aim squarely at Trump’s recent executive actions on immigration, as well as increased raids by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to arrest undocumented immigrants.

“In the early weeks of this administration, we have seen an unprecedented series of executive actions that have hit our immigrant and religious communities like a cold front striking a chilling fear in the hearts of millions of good, hard-working people,” Harris said.