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    Trump slams Harris on border security in Texas speech

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    AUSTIN – Former President Donald Trump took advantage of an early voting stop in Texas on Friday to hammer home his campaign’s message on border security, saying his Democratic opponent, the vice president, Kamala Harris has “innocent blood on its hands” for crimes committed by illegal migrants and reinforces its commitment to mass expulsions.

    “Immediately upon being sworn in, I will initiate the largest mass deportation program in American history,” Trump told a roaring crowd of about 100 supporters at the invitation-only rally in a private jet hangar at the is from Austin. “I will arrest all migrants operating on American soil.” The plan could cost billions, USA TODAY reported.

    Flanked by Border Patrol agents and standing between signs reading “DEPORT ILLEGALS NOW” and “END MIGRANT CRIME,” Trump introduced Alexis Nungaraywhose daughter, Jocelyn, was found dead in a bayou in Houston in June. Two undocumented Venezuelan citizens were charged with capital murder and sexual assault in her case.

    “Kamala Harris never contacted me, she never gave me her condolences,” Nungaray said, claiming the Biden administration’s “open borders” policy caused her daughter’s death. While unauthorized migrant crossings occurred under the Trump and Biden administrations, the Department of Homeland Security adhered to a “catch and release” policy under Biden, allowing migrants to await asylum hearings in the country instead of keeping them in detention.

    Nungaray was among several speakers who criticized Harris for her immigration policies and rare visits to border regions.

    More: Election 2024 live updates: Eyes on Texas as Trump stops in Austin; Harris in Houston

    About 100 miles to the east, Texans gathered Friday afternoon outside Shell Energy Stadium in Houston for an all-star rally hosted by Harris on her presidential campaign’s signature issue of reproductive rights.

    The event was to feature U.S. Rep. Colin Allreda Democratic congressman from Dallas who is challenging incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, and was expected to include performances from BeyoncéWillie Nelson and DJ Tryfe.

    Cruz, who joined Trump at his rally in Austin Friday afternoon, ridiculed Allred for her appearance with Harris.

    “If you like Kamala Harris’s open borders, if you like Kamala Harris’s inflation, if you like Kamala Harris’s release of criminals from prison and the crime that ensues, then Colin Allred is your guy, because Colin Allred is Kamala Harris,” Cruz said in response to a question from reporters.

    During his roughly 40-minute speech, Trump touted his support for the National Border Patrol Council, the union for Border Patrol agents. He also repeated unsubstantiated claims that mental institutions and prisons in other countries were being “emptied” by immigration to the United States.

    “It’s like trash to most of the world; they’re letting people down who they don’t want,” Trump said. “If we don’t win this year, we’ll go to Venezuela, Ted, and we’ll celebrate there, because it will be much safer than our country.”

    Studies have historically shown that migrants commit crimes at lower rates than American citizens. However, those who support Trump’s goal of deporting all illegal immigrants said one crime was too many.

    Trump did not mention his plan to block federal agencies from automatically granting citizenship to children born in the United States to undocumented parents, because according to his schedulein violation of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution.

    Harris criticized Trump for telling congressional Republicans to reject a bipartisan border billwhich ultimately failed after the former president said he would deliver the president Joe BidenThe administration is a political victory. The bill would have given presidents more authority to reject migrants during periods of heavy trafficking, it tightened asylum restrictions and allocated more resources to Customs and Border Patrol agents and inspection checkpoints.

    Many Republicans, including Cruz, said they believed the bill was too lenient and that the Biden administration should have found a way to close the border without congressional action.

    An enthusiastic crowd

    Trump greeted several Texas Republican Party officials and Republican activists who attended the event, including his allies Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, as well as Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller and Texas Republican Party Chairman Abraham George.

    “When you go after people with bullshit, they become very popular,” Trump said of Paxton’s impeachment.

    Among the least expected guests were the family of Vanessa Guillen, a service member killed in 2020 at Fort Cavazos (then Fort Hood). Guillen’s sister criticized a report by the Atlantic This week, so-called Trump said, “It doesn’t cost $60,000 to bury a f—— Mexican!” and refused to pay for a funeral he had promised to foot the bill for.

    Many rally attendees showed their support in subtle or ostentatious ways. Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham wore a blue dress and heels adorned with glittering American flags; another participant wore white sneakers with “45” embossed in gold. “Make America Great Again” red hats from 2016 to 2024 were in abundance among the crowd.

    Several of those mobilizing are active in Republican Party chapters in and around Austin, and several have told the American-Statesman of their hope that Trump will resolve political divisions.

    Abhiram Garapati, a Cedar Park rancher who plans to run for Congress, brought a felt cowboy hat stamped “Donald J. Trump” to present to the former president at the rally.

    An Indian immigrant who said he “came here with nothing 25 years ago,” Garapati said he wholeheartedly supports Trump.

    “The current politicians have absolutely no vision,” he said. “No one says, ‘Let’s put a man on the moon.’ We have lost that kind of politician who has a vision for the country, who wants to unite the country and set high goals for it. That’s why I’m here. Garapati also cited his concerns about inflation, crime and immigration as reasons why he is voting for the former president.

    The breeder took a different tone about Cruz.

    “I don’t know why there are so many people against him. He has to work on it as a politician,” he said. According to him, Cruz should compromise on the right to abortion.

    “I hope (the two sides) can agree on a mutual compromise so that the country can move forward and not fight over this anymore,” he said.

    The gathering in Butler, Pennsylvania, where Trump was almost assassinated. Some protesters wore shirts showing the former president with his fist raised after a bullet pierced his earlobe.

    Benjamin Shrader, a member of the Austin Young Republicans, who sat across from Trump at the rally, described hearing a bullet hit Corey Comperatore about 10 feet behind him.

    “I’m glad he’s alive,” he said of Trump. “I hate violence. I think violence of any kind is terrible for the country; it is very dangerous.”

    Trump heads to record podcast

    After the rally, Trump’s motorcade headed west to tape an episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience” Podcast in Rogan’s studio in Austin. Trump’s campaign was likely betting that his appearance on the show, extremely popular among conservative-leaning American men, could increase voter turnout, Agriculture Commissioner Miller told the journalists.

    The trip to a non-battleground state for the recording is a marker of change in the media landscape, one of Trump’s comments pointed out.

    “We have a lot of them, fake news people,” he said of journalists after calling Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg “sleazy.” “They are bad people, they pose a threat to democracy.”

    Harris fans prepare for Houston rally

    Meanwhile, in Houston, hours before Harris’ rally began, the line to see the Democratic candidate snaked by the thousands around Shell Energy Stadium, home of Major League Soccer team Houston Dynamo FC of the city.

    Sitting in the shade of a crepe myrtle stand along the west wall of the arena were cousins ​​Jacqueline Sevier and Tracey Mason-Moore.

    As black women coming of age in the 1980s, Mason-Moore and Sevier didn’t even imagine they would have the opportunity to vote for a woman of color in a presidential election. They are now in their sixties.

    “This is going to go down in the history books,” Mason-Moore said.

    Both said abortion rights were at the top of their priorities in the election.

    “What about someone who is assaulted or raped? Mason-Moore said Almost total ban on abortion in Texas.

    Sevier, interrupting, said, “Especially if it’s a matter of life and death.”

    They were asked if the expected performance of pop superstar Beyoncé factored into their decision to wait in what had quickly become a very long queue.

    “I’m here for Harris, and that’s it,” Sevier said. “I’m too old to care about Beyoncé.”

    In Houston on Friday, Harris criticized Trump’s statement calling the United States a the “trash” of the world accusing the former president of denigrating the American people.

    “This is someone who is a former president of the United States, who has a bully pulpit,” Harris told reporters before the rally. “And this is how he uses it? To tell the world that somehow the United States of America is trash?”

    Statesman Staff Writer John Moritz and USA TODAY Staff Writer Joey Garrison contributed reporting.

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