Vice President Kamala Harris is set to make her first visit to the southern border since announcing her run for the 2024 race, with plans to criticize former President Donald Trump on the issue of border security. Harris, who has struggled in polling on immigration and border security, will visit a border town in Arizona to highlight Trump’s role in blocking a bipartisan border deal earlier this year. Her campaign aims to emphasize her previous work on the issue and present Trump as “dangerous.”
Harris is expected to discuss her bipartisan border security plan, which she believes is the toughest in a generation. She has criticized Trump for sabotaging a previous bipartisan border security bill that would have addressed many of the issues he now criticizes. Harris has promised to revive the bill if elected and sign it into law.
Trump has made the border and immigration central to his campaign, making multiple visits to the southern border and using controversial language to describe migrants. He has characterized Harris as weak on the border, claiming she is going to the border for political reasons.
Despite polling showing that more voters trust Trump to handle border security, Harris is seen as better at treating immigrants humanely and protecting immigrant rights. Recent data shows a decline in migrants seeking shelter and crossing the southern border, with Border Patrol apprehensions at their lowest since Biden took office. Harris’s upcoming visit will be her second to the southern border as vice president.
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