As former President Trump has become increasingly aggressive toward Vice President Harris on immigration, the Trump campaign launched a website on Friday highlighting fentanyl deaths and arrests of immigrants who have entered the country illegally.
This campaign is run through a website. From kamalaborderbloodbath.comwas created to highlight the surge in migrants at the southern border under the Biden administration. The website calls Harris the “border czar,” a reference to her mission to address the root causes of migration from the Northern Triangle countries of Central America.
The website has pages dedicated to 13 states, including battleground states like Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Nevada, highlighting migrant fentanyl deaths and crimes in each location.
“President Trump will continue to highlight the failure of Kamala Harris’ immigration policies on behalf of Angel Moms and the grieving Americans who senselessly lost loved ones in Kamala’s border massacre,” campaign spokeswoman Caroline Leavitt said in a statement. “If Kamala is given four more years to implement her pro-illegal immigration, open borders policies, America will cease to exist.”
Trump campaign officials said they would spend money on advertising to drive traffic to a website that argues a vote for Harris is a “vote for invasion.”
The launch of the website underscores how the Trump campaign is trying to make immigration a central issue in its campaign against Harris, whose popularity has soared in the polls since she became the Democratic nominee after Biden dropped out of the race.
President Trump visited the U.S.-Mexico border on Thursday during a visit to Arizona, where he highlighted stories of people killed by migrants.
He invited the families of Rachel Morin, who was killed in Maryland, and Jocelyn Nangaray, who was killed in Texas – both cases involving immigrants who were arrested after crossing the border illegally.
Trump spoke in Cochise County against a backdrop of stacked metal beams to mark an unfinished section of the wall along the US-Mexico border that was a centrepiece of his first term in office.
Trump has pledged to complete construction of a border wall and, if re-elected, has promised to launch the largest deportation operation in history, which he has said would rely primarily on local law enforcement to crack down on illegal immigrants.
Harris and her campaign have sought to blunt those attacks by accusing Trump of derailing a bipartisan border security proposal introduced in the Senate earlier this year that would have increased law enforcement resources and cracked down on the number of people crossing the border each day.
Democrats have also criticised Trump’s rhetoric on immigration, blasting the former president for saying immigrants were “poisoning the blood” of the country.
In her acceptance speech at the convention on Thursday night, Harris attacked Trump over border security and vowed not to “play politics.”
“As president, I will restore the bipartisan border security bill that Trump killed and sign it into law,” the vice president said. “I am confident we can uphold our proud tradition as a nation of immigrants and reform our broken immigration system.”
