Voters fail Harris on border, 62% see ‘a crisis’

Worse for Harris, who has just one trip to the border under her belt since being declared the border czar 106 days ago, 33% believe that she has done a good to excellent job in her role. Sixty-two percent said she has done fair to poor, with poor being the largest number at a whopping 48%.

The survey of likely voters found that they prefer the approach taken by Trump, who eventually closed the border with COVID-19 policies, a new and reinforced border wall, and a notable agreement with Mexico to keep illegal immigrants while their entry applications were considered in the United States.

President Joe Biden wiped away those policies, and the result has been hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants crossing into the U.S., the highest in about 20 years.

In the poll, 49% said that the border policies of Biden and Harris are worse than Trump’s. Just 35% said that they are better, likely driven by Democrats who preferred Biden’s efforts over Trump’s 63%-20%.

Harris has made few moves in her role since Biden assigned it in March. She traveled south of the border, but so far, she hasn’t received much help from the countries she visited. Biden has largely ignored the issue.

Trump, meanwhile, who cited illegal immigration in his 2015 presidential announcement, has continued to`focus on it and visited the border June 30. There, he cited the new open-border policies and illegal crossings that have resulted and said, “Biden is destroying our country.”