Harris vows to do more on immigration at the southern border

Vice President Kamala Harris was in San Francisco on Saturday following a visit to the US border with Mexico and vowed to do more to secure the border.

At the same time, Republicans released new data showing how many undocumented immigrants commit crimes.

Vice President Kamala Harris walked with border agents in her first visit to the southern border since becoming the Democratic nominee. He has promised to do more to secure the border, including bringing in more personnel and inspection systems with technology to detect fentanyl.

He also called for a better way to welcome immigrants legally.

Harris said in Douglas: “I reject the false choice that suggests we must choose between securing our border or creating a safe, orderly and humane immigration system. We can and must do both. We must do both.” ,Arizona.

KTVU political analyst Brian Sobel said Harris’ visit to the border was important because she’s behind Trump when it comes to immigration.

“Obviously, Kamala Harris is going to be weak on this issue because for three and a half years we have had people coming to the United States, committing crimes and doing other things that the administration has no obvious plan to prevent,” Sobel said.

While Harris was in Arizona on Friday, former President Donald Trump was in Michigan and continued to blame her for the nation’s immigration problems.

He pointed to new figures released by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

“According to this brand new, never-before-seen data, more than 13,000, 99 convicted murderers have crossed the border and are free to roam our country and kill. These are convicted murderers. These are people who are in prison. And I’ve been talking about this for three years,” Trump said.

The figures Trump mentioned were included in the letter the ICE Deputy Director wrote to Texas Republican lawmaker Tony Gonzalez, who made the letter public.

The letter lists the number of undocumented immigrants who are or are not detained and who have committed crimes in the U.S. or abroad, ranging from low-level traffic offenses to fraud and assault.

Nearly 15,000 undocumented immigrants who were not detained were convicted or charged with murder, while more than 20,000 were convicted or charged with sexual assault, the report found.

Sobel is unsure of the accuracy of the data.

“These numbers will be fought for a while to decide whether the numbers are legitimate or not and the sources of the numbers, and they all need to be examined. But all this aside, Americans feel it. They intuitively understand that something exists. It is an issue that needs to be addressed and resolved,” he said. Sobel.

Sobel said Trump will take those numbers and run with them, while it may be too late for the Harris campaign to reverse that narrative — at least in this regard.