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(NewsNation) — The City of Brotherly Love hosted a fiery debate Tuesday, and concern implicit the nation’s border was featured heavy successful the back-and-forth betwixt the 2024 statesmanlike candidates.
Former President Donald Trump doubled down connected immoderate of his arguable borderline initiatives, portion Vice President Kamala Harris defended her administration's border policy.
Trump blames Biden-Harris for migration problems
"They have, and she has, destroyed our state with argumentation that’s insane. Almost argumentation that you’d say, ‘They person to hatred our country,’” Trump said, referencing the record-high migrant crossings into the U.S. from Mexico nether the Biden administration.
However, that aforesaid medication has besides seen a sharp drop successful migration since President Joe Biden implemented a mandate successful July that limits borderline crossings.
“The United States Congress, including immoderate of the astir blimpish members of the United States Senate, came up with a borderline information bill, which I supported. … You cognize what happened to that bill? Donald Trump got connected the phone, called up immoderate folks successful Congress, and said, ‘Kill the bill,’” Harris said.
“He’d similar to tally connected a occupation alternatively than fixing a problem,” Harris added.
Trump repeatedly brought up wide stories astir immigrants successful America's communities.
“You look astatine Springfield, Ohio, you look astatine Aurora successful Colorado. They are taking implicit our towns, they are taking implicit buildings, they’re going successful violently,” Trump said. “These are the radical that she and Biden fto into our country, and they’re destroying our country.”
Trump and his allies person falsely accused Haitian immigrants successful the tiny Ohio municipality of Springfield of abducting and eating pets. There’s nary grounds that the assemblage is doing that, officials told The Associated Press.
In Aurora, Colorado, rumors of a Venezuelan gang taking implicit an flat analyzable person tally rampant successful caller days, though residents astatine the analyzable person said the pack is progressive successful the country but not successful power of the apartments.
Trump blamed the Biden-Harris medication for the influx of immigrants and, subsequently, an alleged summation successful crime.
“This volition beryllium 1 of the top mistakes successful past for them to allow,” Trump said. “And I deliberation they did it due to the fact that they deliberation it’s going to get them votes, but it’s not worthy it.”
His rhetoric aligns with his erstwhile stringent borderline policies, successful which helium promised to motorboat the largest deportation effort successful U.S. past and effort again to extremity the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, commonly referred to arsenic DACA. While helium was president, astir 450 miles of barriers were built on the Southwest border, according to the AP.
Trump did not respond to ABC's David Muir erstwhile asked however helium would enact that deportation effort.
Harris connected borderline policy
Prior to the debate, Harris had not expanded connected her borderline policies and past dislike of Trump-era initiatives, similar pushes to deport much migrants oregon completing a borderline wall. She did not specifically notation immoderate argumentation points during the forum.
She’s faced disapproval astir her handling of the confederate borderline during her tenure arsenic vice president. Republicans person fixed her the statement of “border czar,” though it was ne'er her existent title.
In 2021, she was enactment successful complaint of overseeing diplomacy with Mexico and the Northern Triangle arsenic a means of addressing the “root causes” of migration.
The occupation of controlling who and however galore radical tin participate the state is Homeland Security's, according to PolitiFact.
Trump brought up her nickname during the debate. Harris did not remark connected it.
NewsNation’s Jorge Ventura and Katie Smith contributed to this report.
