Comparing Trump's and Harris' positions on immigration and border security
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🗓️ 12 September 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | One of the most divisive issues in this year's presidential race is immigration. |
| 0:06.0 | On the campaign trail, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump |
| 0:10.0 | have clashed over how to handle immigration policy. |
| 0:13.0 | While federal agents reported nearly 2.5 million migrant encounters at the southern border last year, |
| 0:19.0 | in the last five months crossings have plunged, |
| 0:22.0 | our Lisa Desjardin has been covering both |
| 0:24.0 | candidates plans. She joins us now. Good to see you, Lisa. Let's start with the |
| 0:27.6 | border and border security specifically. What do we hear from each campaign |
| 0:31.4 | in terms of how they would handle this issue? |
| 0:34.4 | Both Trump and Harris have talked about border security and in office both of them have |
| 0:38.6 | actually increased border security but from there that's where things diverge. |
| 0:43.0 | So let's take a look first at Vice President Kamala Harris and what she wants to do. |
| 0:47.0 | She has pointed to a particular Senate bill proposal for what she thinks needs to happen on the border and far as security goes. |
| 0:54.0 | Here's what she said in the debate. |
| 0:56.0 | The United States Congress, including some of the most conservative members of the United States Senate, |
| 1:02.0 | came up with a border security bill which I supported. |
| 1:06.8 | And that bill would have put 1500 more border agents on the border to help those folks who are working there right now over time trying to do their job. |
| 1:16.0 | On border security that means 1500 customs and border patrol agents but also hundreds of |
| 1:21.2 | asylum and other new officers. |
| 1:23.1 | She also would like to invest in more detection technology specifically |
| 1:26.8 | to cut fentanyl smuggled in. |
| 1:29.4 | Now, that bill of course, Amna is the one that former President Trump personally killed, even |
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