By Jean Guerrero, The New Republic
August 5, 2024
She can show how U.S. weapons are driving immigrants.
Kamala Harris is achieving what many people long believed was impossible: making Donald Trump look weak on the U.S.-Mexico border. By sustaining and strengthening her immigration counteroffensive, she can turn her opponent’s main weapon into his Achilles’ heel.
But Harris can do more to seize control of the immigration narrative. She can co-opt Trump’s signature issue by talking about border control—in terms of gun control.
Immigrants aren’t coming en masse from “prisons” and “insane asylums,” as Trump claims. They’re fleeing violence in their home countries spurred by the largely unfettered flow of U.S. firearms.
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