A recent campaign advertisement from Vice President Kamala Harris seeks to portray the candidate as a proponent of border security, even going as far as to include a shot of the border wall built under former President Donald Trump.
The advertisement from the Harris campaign uses a shot of the border wall that appears to be taken from a Voice of America news clip from May of this year.
“As a border state prosecutor, she took on drug cartels,” the advertisement claims of Harris as it shows the border wall. The footage depicts the border wall in Sasabe, Arizona, where Trump had been building the wall under his term.
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This spot is focused on border security
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“As president, she will hire thousands more border agents and crack down on fentanyl and human trafficking. Fixing the border is tough. So is… pic.twitter.com/qb2wS5CLml
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It isn’t the first advertisement that has sought to portray Harris as a proponent of border security. “Kamala Harris supports increasing the number of Border Patrol agents,” a different ad said. “Kamala Harris supports spending more money to stop human traffickers.”
Despite the attempt from the Harris campaign to portray the Democrat as an advocate for border security, the Biden-Harris administration has presided over an unprecedented crisis on both the southern and northern borders.
Over 10 million people have crossed the border under the Biden-Harris administration, with an estimated 1.7 million illegal immigrant gotaways recorded since he was inaugurated in 2021. The figures present a stark contrast from the Trump administration, when there were 415,000 total reported gotaways for 2018, 2019, and 2020.
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President Joe Biden tasked Harris with stemming the tide of migrants to the border in 2021 shortly after taking office, calling her the “most qualified” person for the role.
The Biden-Harris administration also ended DNA testing at the border, which law enforcement previously used to prevent unaccompanied minor immigrants from being sex trafficked.
Several polls have indicated that immigration/border security is one of the single most important issues for voters heading into the November election, shedding light on why the Harris campaign may be making a pivot.
