Harris calls for tougher border security, immigration reform in Arizona

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : In Arizona, a USA Today/Suffolk University poll released Friday found Trump with a 6-point lead in the state.
55% : The Decision Desk HQ average of polls has Trump ahead by 0.8 percent in Arizona.
51% : Encounters at ports of entry include migrants who apply for humanitarian programs and those who have made appointments through the CBP One app, but not immigrants and non-immigrant foreign nationals crossing the border with visas.
49% : "That's why she backed the bipartisan border deal, the one Trump tanked, that would have allowed us to stem the flow of fentanyl, and it's why she's here in Douglas, a town that my husband grew up in, and where we have so much family.
47% : But Harris also pledged to work toward immigration reform among other measures by improving the asylum system and granting a path to citizenship for longtime undocumented residents.
47% : The data released by ICE is beyond disturbing, and it should be a wake-up call for the Biden-Harris administration and cities across the country that hide behind sanctuary policies," said Gonzales in a statement.
46% : Republicans attempted to pre-empt Harris' remarks publishing a letter addressed to Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) acting Director Patrick Lechleitner.
39% : Hayes also pushed that message, driving home the idea that Trump and Republicans have sought to benefit from an image of a dangerous and chaotic border, a portrayal that often irks border communities.
39% : The letter contained data on the number of foreign nationals in the United States who are either convicted or are pending criminal charges, including those detained by ICE and those at large.
37% : According to Lechleitner, there are 425,431 foreign national convicts and 222,141 foreign nationals pending criminal charges not detained by ICE.
36% : Most polls show Harris lagging behind Trump when it comes to immigration - a recent Ipsos poll found that 44 percent of voters said Trump has a better plan on immigration than Harris, who got the nod from 33 percent of respondents.
31% : "Harris's message was crafted for a border state with a Senate race where Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) is running far ahead of GOP nominee Kari Lake, while neither Harris nor Trump has managed to get a clear lead in the state.
30% : Still, her defense of the Senate deal is a double-edged sword: Harris has successfully sold the idea that Trump scuttled the deal because he believed it would work, but the deal's asylum restrictions remain divisive among Democrats.
20% : Harris has tried to make up that difference by portraying Trump as opportunistic on the border, often using the defunct bipartisan Senate border deal as a cudgel.

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