Residents of border town Harris is visiting want funding rather than ‘photo ops’
By
Annabella Rosciglione
September 27, 2024 12:55 pm
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Vice President Kamala Harris will visit the border town of Douglas, Arizona, on Friday as she looks to bolster her image as a candidate who can handle immigration.
Harris has received endorsements from the mayors of some of the largest towns on the Arizona–Mexico border, including Bisbee, Nogales, Somerton, and San Luis, Arizona. She will visit Douglas as part of a campaign stop in Arizona.
Her stop in Douglas may be one of the quieter places on the southern border. The town of 16,000 does not have the capacity to accommodate mass migration and has seen less than other border cities in recent years.
“I want to set the record straight on something here,” Bruce Whetten, a reporter for the Herald Review who has covered Douglas for more than 30 years, told ABC 15 Arizona. “They’re not here to stay. This is a stopping point for them, and we know that. They’re here at most 24-36 hours and then they’re on their way.
“We’re not seeing them wander the streets. We’re not having the violence they have in other locations,” he continued, noting that drugs have always been a problem, but it has worsened with the introduction of fentanyl.
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