Harris talks up immigration plans at packed rally in battleground Arizona

Immigrants were made central issues in the campaign on Friday night at a fully packed rally in the Phoenix suburb while earlier in the week, Harris did not speak of the topic at all in the rallies held in Michigan and Wisconsin. 
 
“We will go on and confront some of the major challenges that affect our nation, for instance the challenge of immigration” Harris said to the cheering supporters. “I was the attorney general of a border state I went after the transnational gangs the drug cartels and the human traffickers I prosecuted them in case after case now they are after me. ” 
 
In the course of the speech, Harris endorsed the bipartisan legislation that will enhance or add more measures on border security policies while providing a way to citizenship to undocumented immigrants. Doing so, she focused on criticism of the former President Donald Trump as completely ineffective on the question of the border and stating that he has been only interested in the electoral agenda rather than the real changes. 
 
“Let me be very clear: The issue at hand is that Donald Trump does not want to fix this problem,” she continued. “Back in May we could have come up with the most intense bipartisan border security bill, but, unfortunately, Donald Trump ruined this chance claiming it would benefit him in an election. ” 
 
“They need to know we know that the immigration system is severely flawed, and it will take all of us and more to restore what is right,” Harris told a gathering her campaign described as 15,000 people strong. 
 
Harris has been under huge pressure from Trump insiders over immigration since becoming a headline of the Democratic side. Republicans have thus in a way directed most of their energy in majoring on Harris’ position in the Biden government. 
 
In 2021, she was given the role to speak about the “push factors” that result in migration of people from the Northern triangle countries of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras to the United States. In later years, her GOP detractors concocted a more expansive list of Harris’s assignments, which claimed that she was appointed to strengthen the borders, which was not a part of her remit. 
 
Immigration has been mentioned by Harris briefly since she started campaigning for the presidency of the United States; it was raised during her past visits to the Sun Belt states. She has accused Trump of holding up the border security bill during a campaign rally in Georgia last month this has been preceded by a campaign by the Harris-Walz campaign which has produced ads on the subject prior to the visits by Harris-Walz to Georgia and Arizona. 
 
The ad read: “As president, she will hire thousands more border agents,” which is a part of an advertisement that the campaign let out on Friday. Combined, the duo deceptively anchors the “Dur ing” principle espousing that “Fixing the border is tough , so is Kamala Harris. 
 
As for Harris and Walz’s trip to Arizona, The Trump campaign commented saying that the Vice President should have gone to the border town. 
 
“Pro-Mexico open borders radical Kamala Harris’ Vice-Presidential pick is just as dangerously liberal as she is,” Halee Dobbins, Republican national committee director for Arizona, and a Trump campaign staffer. “Kamala Harris should not be coming to Phoenix but on the southern border where she is making the border a bloodbath. ” 
 
The emphasis on immigration that is made now is relevant as both campaigns are struggling for votes in Arizona. Biden narrowly carried the state by just over 10,000 votes in 2020 and surveys conducted imply that the head to head battle between Harris and Trump could also be this tight. Further, the Democrats’ proportion of the state’s electorate is 3% lower since the Biden took office, the most recent data from the Arizona Secretary of State shows. 
 
Minnesota Governor candidate and current senator Amy Klobuchar hosted the event; before Harris and her running mate Tim Walz were introduced speakers including Arizona Senator, Mark Kelly endorsed them. Kelly, an ex-astronaut and a naval aviator, rose up for Walz, another veteran, to the attacks of the Republicans on Minnesotan’s military background. 
 
Walz, he [Kelly] who was being rumored to have been under consideration to be the vice presidential candidate said, “He served honorably in uniform for decades. ” 
 
“Since fighting for our service members, fighting for veterans and fighting for military families,” added husband Mark Kelly, former Rep. Giffords. 
 
Former colleague and keynote speaker Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego- who endorsed Harris for president in her 2020 bid- used his time on stage to rip Kari Lake- his GOP opponent in the Arizona Senate race this November- before praising Walz. 
 
“We both served on many committees, but I know one thing about him: He said that Trump always cared for the most about veterans: ‘It was because the candidate always put veterans first,’ stated Gallego, who himself served in the Marines as well as deployed to Iraq.