The vice president made her first campaign visit to the Southwest border to lay out her border security and legal migration plans.
The Kamala Harris campaign on Friday said it believes it has a winning message on immigration and border security, with the vice president visiting the Southwest border in Arizona to try to undercut Donald Trump’s leading numbers on the key election issue.
The Democratic presidential nominee has been strongly critical of Trump’s plans for mass deportation of immigrants, as well as the language he has used when speaking about them. During her address in Douglas, Arizona, on Friday, Harris promised to take a tougher stance on border security, reiterating her promise to reintroduce the bipartisan border bill in Congress, which she has pledged to sign if elected to the Oval Office.
„The United States is a sovereign nation, and I believe we have a duty to set rules at our border and to enforce them, and I take that responsibility very seriously“, Harris said during her address Friday.
Harris also homed in on Trump’s efforts to block a bipartisan border security bill, which Republicans in the Senate struck down in February. The vice president highlighted ways that the bill would have boosted resources for border agents and law enforcement, including paying for inspection machines to detect fentanyl coming across the border.
„It was the strongest border security bill we have seen in decades“, Harris said of the failed measure. „It was endorsed by the Border Patrol union, and it should be in effect today, producing results in real time, right now for our country.“
„But Donald Trump tanked it . because you see, he prefers to run on a problem instead of fixing a problem“, the vice president added.
