The article, so you don’t have that weird lock screen thing (also, for those wondering–if you get these pop-up lock screens and do “select all” and “copy” before the pop up screen actually comes up, you can snag the article before the screen locks you out of it)
Kamala Harris went to the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona on Friday seeking to repair one of her most serious perceived vulnerabilities, and take on Donald Trump’s fearmongering over illegal immigration.
“The American people deserve a president who cares more about border security than playing political games,” the vice president said.
Harris blamed the ex-president for the immigration crisis at the southern border by spotlighting his leading role last spring in killing a bipartisan deal to curb illegal border crossings.
At a campaign event in Douglas, Arizona, Harris claimed Trump “did nothing to fix our broken immigration system” as president, adding that Republicans were trying to force a “false choice” between border security and a “safe, orderly and humane” immigration system.
“We can and must do both,” she told supporters in Douglas.
The speech focused not on the surreal, far-right pet-eating conspiracies espoused by Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, but on Trump’s record. He demanded that congressional Republicans whom he largely controls reject a border enforcement bill negotiated by senators on both sides of the aisle. Trump has long viewed bipartisan governance as weak, and a political win for vulnerable Democratic congressional candidates in this high-stakes election cycle could have stung the GOP.
Harris vowed that if elected she will reintroduce the immigration bill, which would multiply border agents and strengthen asylum laws. She also proposed adding new fentanyl detection machines at U.S. entry points. An ad touting her proposals is running in Arizona and other border states.
The Democratic candidate’s trip to the border was designed to counter claims by Trump and his MAGA allies that Harris and the Biden administration opened the floodgates to “illegal aliens.” Both Trump and Vance have spread outlandish claims that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, have been stealing and eating residents’ pet dogs and cats, leading a group to seek criminal charges against them.
Harris’ trip, however, came at an awkward time, as new government data revealed that more than 13,000 immigrants convicted of homicide, whether in the United States or abroad, are living freely in the U.S. The data from Immigration and Customs Enforcement was provided to Congress.
The Trump campaign on Friday ridiculed Harris, who Trump routinely calls the Biden administration’s “border czar,” for taking a trip to the border to “rewrite the past 44 months of chaos, crime, and bloodshed caused by her open border policy.” Campaign press secretary Karoline Leavitt said voters are “smart enough to realize Kamala Harris has been in charge of the border for four years and she has failed.”
As anti-immigration sentiment among voters has soared, according to Gallup polling, Trump and Vance have hammered the issue constantly on the campaign trail. At a rally in Wilmington, North Carolina, last weekend, Trump declared, “I am your border president, your border president. Kamala would be your invasion president.”
Recent polls show that even as Harris matches or surpasses Trump in national head-to-head polls, the GOP candidate still owns the immigration narrative. A recent New York Times/Siena College poll finds a significant number of voters trust Trump over Harris to handle the issue of the border.
But Harris campaign advisers think the Democrat’s visit to the border will help narrow the gap on her longstanding political vulnerability.
hellocattlecookie on
I am just stating a fact.
The immigration bill is a dead horse, beating it won’t bring it back. There is no path for it to be passed under a Harris Admin unless Tester keeps MT and the Schumer nukes the filibuster.
Harris can’t win on base alone, the swing voters she must woo to win do not exclusively source their news/narrative from the blue sectors, they often know why the Republicans (voters, Trump and elected maga) rejected that bill.
Sackdrip on
Its hilarious that anyone would actually believe she could shove her mess into anyones face but her own lol.
Slicky007 on
She’s a clown
rabidmonkeys on
That 13k number of murderers is over the last decade… so a little Obama, all of Trump, all of Biden.
Edit: also, I was wrong, some of the data is over 40 years old.
Trump owns the dead immigration bill because he wanted it dead for political capital.
penny-wise on
For Republicans, the “immigration crises” are not problems, they are solutions to fear mongering people into voting for them. The immigration problems are completely solvable, but then the Republicans would have one less thing to hold over America’s head.
DifficultTemporary88 on
The only immigrants the GQP cares about are the ones that aren’t white.
RainbowBullsOnParade on
I so endlessly wish that Harris ran on amnesty and compassion instead of the border bill. This position of trying to own republicans on this issue by conceding their racist narrative is why they were able to go so far right as to literally start doing blood libel on legal immigrants.
Or at least if she’s gonna try to throw the border bill back in his face it needs to be a modified version without the stupid fucking wall and the other fascist garbage that is in it. “You had your chance to get your bill but now we’re gonna get an even better one – mine”
Lukaler62 on
Isn’t it amusing that turning a crisis into a showdown feels more like a rodeo than a solution? When did politics become a circus?
AlphaSuerte on
Is this article citing the $118 billion bill that only alloted $20.2 billion to improvements in border security and sent the majority of the funds to Ukraine & Israel? Yeah, a terrible waste of tax-payer funds in the name of border security.
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The article, so you don’t have that weird lock screen thing (also, for those wondering–if you get these pop-up lock screens and do “select all” and “copy” before the pop up screen actually comes up, you can snag the article before the screen locks you out of it)
Kamala Harris went to the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona on Friday seeking to repair one of her most serious perceived vulnerabilities, and take on Donald Trump’s fearmongering over illegal immigration.
“The American people deserve a president who cares more about border security than playing political games,” the vice president said.
Harris blamed the ex-president for the immigration crisis at the southern border by spotlighting his leading role last spring in killing a bipartisan deal to curb illegal border crossings.
At a campaign event in Douglas, Arizona, Harris claimed Trump “did nothing to fix our broken immigration system” as president, adding that Republicans were trying to force a “false choice” between border security and a “safe, orderly and humane” immigration system.
“We can and must do both,” she told supporters in Douglas.
The speech focused not on the surreal, far-right pet-eating conspiracies espoused by Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, but on Trump’s record. He demanded that congressional Republicans whom he largely controls reject a border enforcement bill negotiated by senators on both sides of the aisle. Trump has long viewed bipartisan governance as weak, and a political win for vulnerable Democratic congressional candidates in this high-stakes election cycle could have stung the GOP.
Harris vowed that if elected she will reintroduce the immigration bill, which would multiply border agents and strengthen asylum laws. She also proposed adding new fentanyl detection machines at U.S. entry points. An ad touting her proposals is running in Arizona and other border states.
The Democratic candidate’s trip to the border was designed to counter claims by Trump and his MAGA allies that Harris and the Biden administration opened the floodgates to “illegal aliens.” Both Trump and Vance have spread outlandish claims that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, have been stealing and eating residents’ pet dogs and cats, leading a group to seek criminal charges against them.
Harris’ trip, however, came at an awkward time, as new government data revealed that more than 13,000 immigrants convicted of homicide, whether in the United States or abroad, are living freely in the U.S. The data from Immigration and Customs Enforcement was provided to Congress.
The Trump campaign on Friday ridiculed Harris, who Trump routinely calls the Biden administration’s “border czar,” for taking a trip to the border to “rewrite the past 44 months of chaos, crime, and bloodshed caused by her open border policy.” Campaign press secretary Karoline Leavitt said voters are “smart enough to realize Kamala Harris has been in charge of the border for four years and she has failed.”
As anti-immigration sentiment among voters has soared, according to Gallup polling, Trump and Vance have hammered the issue constantly on the campaign trail. At a rally in Wilmington, North Carolina, last weekend, Trump declared, “I am your border president, your border president. Kamala would be your invasion president.”
Recent polls show that even as Harris matches or surpasses Trump in national head-to-head polls, the GOP candidate still owns the immigration narrative. A recent New York Times/Siena College poll finds a significant number of voters trust Trump over Harris to handle the issue of the border.
But Harris campaign advisers think the Democrat’s visit to the border will help narrow the gap on her longstanding political vulnerability.
I am just stating a fact.
The immigration bill is a dead horse, beating it won’t bring it back. There is no path for it to be passed under a Harris Admin unless Tester keeps MT and the Schumer nukes the filibuster.
Harris can’t win on base alone, the swing voters she must woo to win do not exclusively source their news/narrative from the blue sectors, they often know why the Republicans (voters, Trump and elected maga) rejected that bill.
Its hilarious that anyone would actually believe she could shove her mess into anyones face but her own lol.
She’s a clown
That 13k number of murderers is over the last decade… so a little Obama, all of Trump, all of Biden.
Edit: also, I was wrong, some of the data is over 40 years old.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/29/politics/fact-check-trump-harris-immigrants-homicide/index.html
Trump owns the dead immigration bill because he wanted it dead for political capital.
For Republicans, the “immigration crises” are not problems, they are solutions to fear mongering people into voting for them. The immigration problems are completely solvable, but then the Republicans would have one less thing to hold over America’s head.
The only immigrants the GQP cares about are the ones that aren’t white.
I so endlessly wish that Harris ran on amnesty and compassion instead of the border bill. This position of trying to own republicans on this issue by conceding their racist narrative is why they were able to go so far right as to literally start doing blood libel on legal immigrants.
Or at least if she’s gonna try to throw the border bill back in his face it needs to be a modified version without the stupid fucking wall and the other fascist garbage that is in it. “You had your chance to get your bill but now we’re gonna get an even better one – mine”
Isn’t it amusing that turning a crisis into a showdown feels more like a rodeo than a solution? When did politics become a circus?
Is this article citing the $118 billion bill that only alloted $20.2 billion to improvements in border security and sent the majority of the funds to Ukraine & Israel? Yeah, a terrible waste of tax-payer funds in the name of border security.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/politics/whats-in-the-senates-118-billion-border-and-ukraine-deal
Politics is a circus at the moment and Trump is the silly clown