Vice President Harris will strike a hawkish tone on illegal immigration from a port of entry in Douglas, Ariz., on Friday as she seeks to cut into former President Trump’s advantage on border security.

The Hill’s Alex Gangitano got a peek into what to expect from Harris’s first trip to the Southern border as the Democratic presidential nominee:

• Harris will call for more resources for border patrol agents. She’s previously pledged to hire 1,500 addition border agents.
  
  
• Harris will say she has a plan to curb the flow of fentanyl into the U.S. by installing new detection machines at ports of entry.
  
  
• A campaign official said Harris plans to make the case that “American sovereignty requires setting rules at the border and enforcing them.” She will argue that a safe and secure border can also be “humane” in the way it deals with immigrants.
  
  
• Harris will meet with border agents, although there is some tension here. President Biden claimed during his debate against Trump that the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) endorsed him. The border patrol union quickly slapped down the suggestion as false, saying they “never have and never will.”
  
  
• Art Del Cueto, the vice president of the NBPC, told Fox News on Friday: “After years of not just ignoring the problem, but helping create it, Vice President Kamala Harris is finally headed down to the border. This is nothing more than for her to check the box, but what it is in reality is a slap in the face towards the men and women that put their lives on the line every day, and also a slap in the face to the American public. Where has she been?”
  
  
• Harris will reiterate her support for the bipartisan border deal that failed twice in Congress this year after Trump came out against it. The NBPC supported that bill. “The American people deserve a president who cares more about border security than playing political games,” Harris will say.
  
  
• In addition to the border visit, the Harris campaign will release a new ad in Arizona casting her as a border hawk. “She will secure our border. Here’s her plan — hire thousands of more border agents, enforce the law and step up technology and stop fentanyl smuggling and human trafficking. We need a leader with a real plan to fix the border and that’s Kamala Harris,” the narrator says in the ad.
  
  

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Border encounters have dropped dramatically since Biden’s executive order earlier this year limiting asylum claims at the Southern border.

However, critics accuse Biden and Harris of failing to address the issue for their first three years in office, as a massive influx of illegal immigrants created a strain on resources in cities across the country.

Trump called a press conference Thursday at Trump Tower in New York to act as a prebuttal to Harris’s border visit.

“For nearly four years, we have been living through the worst border crisis in the history of the world,” he said. “There’s never been anything like it, which has brought untold suffering, misery, and death upon our land. The architect of this destruction is Kamala Harris.” 

However, new polls show Trump’s advantage on border security has narrowed since Harris replaced Biden as the Democratic nominee.

• The final CNN poll while Biden was in the race found Trump with a 22-point advantage on immigration. The most recent survey finds him leading Harris by only 8 points on the issue.

Harris’s border visit to Arizona comes as polls find Trump opening up a lead in the Sun Belt swing state.

• A poll from USA Today/Suffolk University released Friday found Trump with a 6-point lead in Arizona. He leads by 1.4 points in Nate Silver’s average of surveys, which have moved in Trump’s direction by nearly by 2.7 points in Arizona over the past month. Trump lost Arizona to Biden in 2020 by only roughly 10,000 votes.

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