Vice President Kamala Harris defended her record on border security, highlighting her experience as California’s attorney general.
“I was attorney general of a border state. I stood up to transnational gangs, drug cartels and human traffickers,” she said at a rally in Arizona on Friday. “I prosecuted case after case and won. So I know what I’m talking about.”
She added that the country’s immigration system is broken, but that “we know what is needed to fix it: comprehensive reform that includes strong border security and an earned path to citizenship.”
Republicans attack Kamala’s vice president
His comments come at a time when Republicans have attacked Kamala’s stance on border security.
Tim Walz, Vice President Kamala Harris’ newly announced running mate, is providing even more ammunition for former President Donald Trump to attack his Democratic rival for being weak on immigration — an issue that is a top concern for many Americans in this presidential election.
The Trump campaign and Republicans are pointing to several laws Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signed last year that expand state services and benefits to undocumented immigrants as examples of the Harris campaign’s “radical left” policies. -Walz.
“This is a guy who wants to give driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants,” JD Vance, the Republican vice presidential nominee, said of Walz at a campaign event in Michigan on Wednesday, noting that Trump will stop the flow of migrants to the US. “This is a radical human being who comes from the far left wing of the Democratic Party.”
At the beginning of a press conference on Thursday (8), Trump criticized Walz regarding immigration, saying that the governor does not want borders or any form of security for the United States. His comments followed a video the Republican party posted on X showing both Kamala and Walz expressing support for sanctuary states and cities, with Walz saying that if the definition of a sanctuary state is that the federal government enforces immigration law and the police local takes care of local laws, he agrees with that.
The Trump campaign will use Walz, who implemented a series of progressive policies as governor, to create even sharper contrasts between the candidates and highlight Kamala’s perceived vulnerability — that she is a liberal from San Francisco, said John Thomas, a Republican strategist .
“Choosing Walz was an implicit endorsement of his record and political agenda,” Thomas said. “Trump will seek to associate Kamala with Walz’s liberal record, especially on the issue of immigration.”
When asked about the matter, a spokesperson for Kamala’s campaign said that the governor and vice president support the bipartisan agreement on borders — which Republicans blocked in the Senate earlier this year after Trump expressed opposition to the project — and President Joe Biden’s executive orders that reduced border crossings.
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