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KAMALA HARRIS TALKS TOUGH ON BORDER SECURITY TO TAKE ON DONALD TRUMP

By Ted Hesson, Kristina Cooke and Trevor Hunnicutt
August 7, 202412:06 PM GMT+2Updated 3 days ago
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Item 1 of 4 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris holds a ball signed by
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[1/4]FILE PHOTO: U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris holds a ball signed by the
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WASHINGTON, Aug 7 - Vice President Kamala Harris is toughening her position on
illegal immigration, taking on hardliner Donald Trump on his signature issue in
a series of campaign events and digital ads in coming weeks, according to
campaign staff.
The campaign plans to promote Harris' support for a bipartisan border security
bill - defeated in the Senate in February after Trump came out against it - that
would have increased funding for border agents and detention facilities, an
official said.
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Harris' more combative approach on immigration is expected to be on display as
she campaigns around the country with her running mate Tim Walz, the governor of
Minnesota, who was chosen in part for his appeal to voters in America's
heartland.
Harris will also highlight Trump's most divisive actions, such as his 2018
policy that separated thousands of migrant families at the U.S.-Mexico border
and an executive order in 2017 that sought to ban travel from certain
Muslim-majority countries. A version of the ban was upheld by the Supreme Court
a year later.
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A campaign official said Harris had a chance to reintroduce herself to voters
after becoming the Democratic presidential candidate following U.S. President
Joe Biden's exit from the race last month.
"It's all part of a larger effort by Harris to be direct and to go directly at
Trump," said Matt Barreto, a pollster who has worked with the Harris and Biden
campaigns. "Democrats always do well when they lean in on the immigration issue
and don't run away from it."

The enforcement-first position is a departure from Biden's 2020 campaign, when
he pledged a more humane approach to immigration than Trump. Biden gradually
hardened his approach as illegal crossings increased.
The Trump campaign has sought to blame Harris for illegal immigration, dubbing
her a failed "border czar," though her portfolio was focused on the drivers of
migration from Central America.

"If dangerously liberal Kamala is president, our border will remain wide open to
terrorists and criminals from around the world who will face no consequence for
committing heinous migrant crimes," Trump campaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt
said in a statement, when asked about Harris' record.


HARRIS TOUTS PROSECUTION RECORD

Harris began setting out her new, more combative strategy in a speech in Atlanta
last week, criticizing Trump for helping to sink the border security bill.

She also touted her record on border-related prosecutions as California attorney
general. "I went after transnational gangs, drug cartels, and human traffickers
that came into our country illegally," she said. "I prosecuted them in case
after case, and I won."
Harris has made the border security bill a centerpiece of her platform, and a
digital campaign ad has cast the election as a choice between "the one who will
fix our broken immigration system. And the one who's trying to stop her."
Jeffrey Jarman, a Wichita State University professor who focuses on political
communication, said Harris' push-back was a way to avoid ceding the issue of
border security to Republicans.
"Failure to talk about the issue allows Republicans to completely dominate the
discussion and frame her in the most unflattering way," he said.
But he acknowledged that going on the offensive is unlikely to win over
Republican voters and that Harris risked getting sidetracked on issues that are
not as important to her supporters.
"Candidates who spend too much time talking about the issues of their opponent
will always face a more difficult time winning the election," he said.
Numerous polls suggest voters have grown more concerned with high levels of
illegal immigration under Biden. In a Reuters/Ipsos poll in May, some 45% of
registered voters said immigration has made life harder for native-born
Americans.
Illegal crossings have plummeted since Biden issued new restrictions on asylum
at the border in June.
A memo published on Friday by the advocacy group Immigration Hub argued that
Harris could energize voters if she pairs her enforcement record with
protections for immigrants already in the U.S. illegally, citing polling for
seven battleground states.
Harris played a key role in the Biden administration's announcement in June that
it would provide a path to citizenship to spouses of immigrants in the U.S.
illegally, as Reuters previously reported.
Trump has promised to launch mass deportations if reelected.
Ken Budge, the Democratic mayor of the 5,000-person border city of Bisbee,
Arizona, said high illegal crossings in recent years have at times made it
challenging to provide basic necessities to migrants as they passed through.
He said the Harris campaign wanted to solve the border problem. "They don't want
to just kick the can down the road."
Tom Suozzi, a New York Democrat who won a special election to Congress in
February by taking a tough stand on the border, said a member of Harris' team
texted him a link to her social media ad on immigration last week, saying they
thought he would like it.
"A lot of my consultants and a lot of political people were saying, 'What are
you talking about immigration for? It's a Republican issue,'" Suozzi said in an
interview.
"I said, 'No, it's an American issue. It's what people are talking about.'"

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Ted Hesson is an immigration reporter for Reuters, based in Washington, D.C. His
work focuses on the policy and politics of immigration, asylum and border
security. Prior to joining Reuters in 2019, Ted worked for the news outlet
POLITICO, where he also covered immigration. His articles have appeared in
POLITICO Magazine, The Atlantic and VICE News, among other publications. Ted
holds a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of
Journalism and bachelor's degree from Boston College.

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