Vice President Kamala Harris is toughening her position on illegal immigration, taking on hardliner Donald Trump on his signature issue in a series of campaign events and digital ads in coming weeks, according to campaign staff.
The campaign plans to promote Harris' support for a bipartisan border security bill - defeated in the Senate in February after Trump came out against it - that would have increased funding for border agents and detention facilities, an official said.
Harris will also highlight Trump's most divisive actions, such as his 2018 policy that separated thousands of migrant families at the U.S.-Mexico border and an executive order in 2017 that sought to ban travel from certain Muslim-majority countries.
A version of the ban was upheld by the Supreme Court a year later.
"It's all part of a larger effort by Harris to be direct and to go directly at Trump," said Matt Barreto, a pollster who has worked with the Harris and Biden campaigns.
"Democrats always do well when they lean in on the immigration issue and don't run away from it."
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