Immigration policy continues to play a large role in the 2024 US presidential race, with former President Donald J. Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris now running against each other, following President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s withdrawal from the race on July 21, 2024.
Trump has focused on immigration in his campaign, dedicating time at nearly every campaign stop to border issues and his plans to fix them should he win reelection. Immigration dominated every night of the 2024 Republican National Convention and was a major point of contention at the first presidential debate on June 27, 2024. Now, Trump is blaming Harris for the border crisis, labeling her Biden’s “border czar” and attacking her immigration record in political ads.
Under Biden, Harris did not oversee the formulation or implementation of policy at the border—that responsibility lay with the commissioner for US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the National Security Council senior director for transborder security. Instead, Harris was tasked with a two-pronged diplomatic assignment to reduce the incentives migrants have to leave Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, first by enhancing lawful pathways for migration to the United States and second by strengthening ties with and improving infrastructure, supporting business, and bolstering civil society in those countries.
Most US adults consider immigration to be a top policy priority and would like to see immigration to the United States decline. However, there is little consensus on specific immigration policies, as noted in a previous blog post that lists major policy actions made under Trump and Biden. To track Harris’s and Trump’s future immigration plans, this page follows up to list policy proposals made by each campaign as of August 2024.
Latinos say Harris is better on border security
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