Presidential candidate Kamala Harris and other Democrats are going on the offensive as tough on immigration and border security, running on an issue Republicans have featured as a main policy weakness of the Biden administration. A new TV ad from the Harris campaign highlights her background as a prosecutor, making use of her time as district attorney of San Francisco and California attorney general, Roll Call reports. “As vice president, she backed the toughest border control bill in decades,” a narrator says on the video. “And as president, she will hire thousands more border agents and crack down on fentanyl and human trafficking. Fixing the border is tough. So is Kamala Harris.”
The ad builds on Harris remarks Harris gave at a rally last week in Glendale, Ariz., where she told 15,000 supporters that her record as a prosecutor showed she would be tough on the issue. “I was attorney general of a border state. I went after the transnational gangs, the drug cartels and the human traffickers,” Harris said. “I prosecuted them in case after case and I won, so I know what I’m talking about.” At the same time, Harris said her approach to immigration would be multi-faceted and not leave undocumented immigrants in the lurch, pursuing a policy that “includes strong border security and an earned pathway to citizenship.” The Harris campaign says current administration policies are working. A statement from the campaign says border crossings having dropped for five straight months and “two of Mexico’s most notorious and dangerous drug lords were apprehended. Harris’ move comes as Trump and Republicans have tried to frame Harris as the Biden administration’s “border czar” largely responsible for the administration’s immigration policies.
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