Harris Tries To Blunt Trump's Strongest Issue Against Her With Visit To Southern Border

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

39% : He told Fox News that Trump personally lobbied his colleagues to kill the bill in an effort to help his campaign to regain the White House.
35% : "Trump said don't fix anything during the presidential election.
34% : She has aggressively blamed Trump for scuttling the measure that would have added 1,500 more Border Patrol agents and paid for 100 new machines to detect fentanyl at ports of entry, which is where the vast majority of it has been coming into the country.
30% : That Trump persuaded his GOP allies to stop the legislation early this year is not in dispute.
29% : By the time Trump left office, there were only 52 new miles of fence built where there previously had been no barrier along the 1,954-mile border.
25% : Upon election, however, Trump made no effort to get Mexico to pay and ultimately raided money earmarked for housing and schools for military service members and their families to build his promised wall, which by then had morphed into a slightly taller version of the steel border fence that been started by President George W. Bush and continued under President Barack Obama.
24% : And Trump himself acknowledged at the time that he did not want the bill to pass.
22% : "Harris also criticized Trump for making no effort to reform the immigration system during his four years in office, and she said she would make that a priority, particularly to offer a path to citizenship for those who were brought into the country illegally as children.
15% : Biden, before he ended his reelection campaign, had been polling far behind Trump on the issue of illegal immigration, but Harris has managed to close that gap somewhat in recent polls.
5% : Since Harris became the presumptive Democratic nominee after Biden dropped out in July, Trump has accused her of failing to solve the illegal immigration problem despite being "the border czar.
5% : In her Sept. 10 presidential debate with Trump, for example, she answered an immigration question by making it entirely about Trump, accusing him of blocking the border bill solely to keep it alive as a campaign issue.

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