Donald Trump | Border Patrol | The new proposal on the border that he himself rejected when it was being debated in the United States Congress

As part of the electoral campaign against his Democratic rival Kamala Harris,Trump shot at the undocumented immigration calling thousands of people who continue to arrive in the United States, crossing the border with Mexico, invaders or criminals.

He republican spoke to his supporters in Prescott Valley, Arizona. There he held a conversation with the union of the National Border Patrol Council.

“I will immediately ask Congress to approve a 10% increase”said the candidate during the rally, and assured that the lack of personnel is due to the fact that they have not been treated well.

His intervention was accompanied by the union president Paul Pérez, who directed his words against the rival candidate Kamala Harris. “If we allow Harris to win this election, every city, every community in this great country will go to hell.”he said after pointing out her as the person in charge of applying the border policies of the Joe Biden government.

For the international analyst Juan Negrithis proposal of Trump It has a contradictory appearance due to having blocked the previous project, but it is also a form of strategy to take over the topic.

“It has to do with blocking the Democratic Party’s ability to earn credits for this policy and, on the contrary, attributing it to him, especially thinking that immigration is one of the issues where the Republican Party has the greatest advantage”indicated the director of Political Sciences at the Torcuato Di Tella University to The Commerce.

On the other hand, the analyst Octavio Pescador considers that Trump remains very consistent, since Since the beginning of his political career he has had the immigrant as an enemywhich “It has paid dividends.”and is now redoubling the emphasis on the anti-immigrant campaign”.

Although, indeed, the rejection of Trump to the legislative proposal that frustrated, and that Border Patrol He saw it favorably, today he is making a campaign promise to hire 10,000 more agents.

“For a union, each of those members means quotas and simplifies more power, so that is a flank, which is a campaign promise that works to compensate for that possible perception of having derailed something that would have benefited the Border Patrol. ”said the UCLA professor and CNN en Español commentator.

Arizona: an important block

But Donald Trump’s last day is more important than the proposal itself.

The party activity was carried out in Arizonaone of the access routes for migrants on the border of USA con Mexico. According to the organization Doctors Without Borders, thousands of people cross the desert of Sonoratowards Pima and Santa Cruz counties, “a treacherous route” since it is a remote region without shelters, without basic services and with distant medical centers.

For the analyst Negri There is something “flamboyant and spectacular” about the advertisement, right in the presence of the National Border Patrol Councila union that understands well with the Republican Party. Furthermore, the hiring of 10 thousand agents is a fairly important figure as a public policy.

“It has to do a little bit with how Trump approaches the campaign. That is, carrying out symbolic acts, acts with many announcements that are later difficult to fulfill or, in particular, done in a border state, in Arizona. It is like a way to give a lot of symbolism to this, compared to the endorsement of this union”said the analyst.

On the other hand, the locality itself also becomes important. Arizona It is a key state if it comes to adding votes. The New York Times points out that in a recent survey, Trump (51%) was ahead of Harris (46%) by five percentage points, something that has been maintained since September.

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Pescador also points out that, in the macro analysis, Arizona has a significant Latin American population and a still small margin compared to Kamala Harris. “It is in his best interest to go make, as they say colloquially, noise, make a broad call to once again make visible the enemy he has always had, which is immigrants, and say that if he were to win Kamala Harris “The country would be flooded with undocumented immigrants.”he commented to this newspaper. Furthermore, he added that it must be considered that the immigration problem is very close to the reality of Arizonait is more visible.

What do immigrants think?

The electoral campaign in the United States is showing some contradictions among Latin American voters, especially when it comes to anti-immigration policy. A New York Times poll shows that Kamala Harris does not finish receiving the support of Latinos, if compared to the 2016 and 2020 elections, all against Donald Trump.

Nowadays Harris has 56% supportwhile Trump receives 37%. But, in the previous campaign Joe Biden received the votes of 62% of that electorate. And much further back, Hillary Clinton took 68%. That is, preference seems to have been reduced in this segment, which could cost consumers democrats.

Negri points out that there are several factors that can be taken into account. On the one hand, he points out that In social terms, the Latino voter is closer to the Republican Party than to the Democratic Party.

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“The Latino vote is quite conservativeis a voter, I insist, who assigns importance to religion, Sunday mass, etc., Mexicans, Central Americans. There is a connection that I think comes from values. Afterwards, I think Curiously, there are Latino voters from older generations who do not want immigrants and Latin Americans to continue arriving.”explains the analyst. This last difference would be due to economic fear and job opportunities.

But there is also the ability to Kamala Harris to face the campaign. Pescador points out that the Democratic candidate “He had a moment of apogee, a honeymoon, a moment of frenzy, of happiness, of novelty too, but after certain weeks, things calm down, he returns to normality and routine, and the mood goes away. novelty”.

He supports several hypotheses for this stagnation of Harris. On the one hand, due to a gender issue, “that it is very difficult for some to accept that a woman is going to be in charge of the country, of the Armed Forces”and another is a social issue that continues to generate discontent with the current Democratic government of Joe Biden. It is worth remembering that Kamala Harris is the current vice president.

On November 5, Americans will decide their new president. The campaign can change in just a few days.