Immigration is a hot-button issue in this year’s U.S. presidential election. Republican Party candidate Donald Trump blames his rival Kamala Harris, for presiding over an influx of millions of undocumented migrants into the United States. But the vice president’s campaign insists she can fix what her own administration admits is a crisis at the southern border.

Joining the discussion:

• Douglass Sloan is Principal at the National Capitol Strategy Group.
• Brandon Brice is Secretary of the Delaware Republican Party and a Conservative Columnist.
• Jacqueline Luqman is Coordinator for the Black Alliance for Peace DC.
• Laura Carlsen is the Executive Director of the Mexico-City based international relations think tank MIRA: Feminisms and Democracies.

Majority of Americans want troops sent to border, oppose illegal immigration: polls https://t.co/TM2ynGXjS6 pic.twitter.com/1s3Y1GBNGQ

— New York Post (@nypost) August 15, 2024

Republicans have called US Vice President Kamala Harris a failed border czar for her work on immigration, though experts on the issue and members of President Joe Biden's administration say that's not what she was asked to do https://t.co/ZE7QU7XR2G pic.twitter.com/usspqe4RAX

— Reuters (@Reuters) July 31, 2024