Harris visits border to talk immigration policy and target Trump
Vice President Kamala Harris is heading to the nation’s southern border to talk about her immigration policies as her opponent, Donald Trump, continues his attacks on immigrants. The Democratic presidential nominee on Friday will travel to Douglas, Arizona, a must-win battleground state, where she is expected to call for more funding and other resources for border security agents including tools to help battle deadly fentanyl. Harris will also target Donald Trump for killing a massive and historic bipartisan border and immigration bill earlier this year.
Politico reports, “Harris will ‘argue that American sovereignty requires setting rules at the border and enforcing them.'”
“She’ll call for more resources for border patrol agents to do their jobs,” and “propose new detection machines for fentanyl at border entry ports.”
“She’ll ‘reject the false choice between securing the border and creating an immigration system that is safe, orderly, and humane,’ and “decry ‘Trump’s failures as president to address this challenge and his recent efforts to kill bipartisan solutions to it’ — and say that ‘the American people deserve a president who cares more about border security than playing political games.'”
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Ahead of her trip the Harris campaign released this video of Senate Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell blaming Donald Trump for killing the border bill:
The Harris campaign also released a new, hard-hitting ad attacking Trump on the border:
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U.S. Senator Mark Kelly, Democrat of Arizona who was on Harris’s vice presidential short list, will join her Friday.
“With Harris visiting the border today,” The New Republic’s Greg Sargent wrote, “I’m hoping that we see some sort of full-throated condemnation of Trump’s attacks on legal immigrant populations and a broader defense of immigration as an affirmative good for the country. That can coexist w/an emphasis on border security.”
Nationally, Harris leads Trump by 2.8 points, according to FiveThirtyEight‘s current polling average (as of publication time.) In Arizona, Trump is leading Harris by just .8%, according to FiveThirtyEight, But a new USA TODAY/Suffolk University poll released Friday shows Vice President Harris beating Trump in Arizona by six points, 48% to 42%.
On immigration, Harris has improved over President Joe Biden’s double-digit deficit against Trump. But she still trails him by three to eight points, USA Today reports.
Later on Friday, Vice President Harris is expected to deliver remarks from the border (watch live below when it happens.)
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