If the US vice president loses her presidential bid to Donald Trump, voters’ concerns around her ability to address border security and immigration levels will have a great deal to do with it.
In travelling to southern Arizona on Friday, Ms Harris hoped to confront her biggest electoral vulnerability head-on.
With Trump painting her as the face of the Biden administration’s unpopular legacy on immigration, this was an attempt to shake off suggestions she has been absent on the issue and take the fight to her Republican opponent.
While she was focused on “commonsense solutions” for immigration reform, she told supporters in the battleground state, Trump was playing “the same old political games”.
Ms Harris promised tough new action to tighten the numbers of people entering the country.
The measures involved imposing stricter, and longer-lasting restrictions on asylum claims than her boss, Joe Biden.
“I will take further action to keep the border closed between ports of entry,” she said. “Those who cross our borders unlawfully will be apprehended, removed and barred from re-entering for five years,”she said, pledging “severe” punishments for repeat offenders.
The proposal is an attempt to claw back ground from Trump, who polls show is handily beating her on the issue with voters with stringent proposals including a mass deportation programme.
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28 сен 2024
