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Border security and immigration
Polling has shown that border security and immigration are among the top issues concerning potential voters in the 2024 presidential election. In 2023 and 2024, a surge of migrants entering the country through the United States' border with Mexico occurred. In response to the influx of migrants, Republican controlled states such as Texas and Florida have been busing migrants to major sanctuary cities controlled by Democrats such as New York and Chicago.

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Donald Trump has stated that if elected, he would increase deportations, send the U.S. military to the border, expand ICE detentions, deputize local law enforcement to handle border security, increase Customs and Border Patrol funding as well as finish building the wall on the southern border. The Biden administration has undertaken a policy of providing temporary protections to migrants from certain countries such as Venezuela, Ukraine, Nicaragua, Cuba and Haiti. In February 2024, Biden and congressional negotiators reached an agreement on a bill to secure the border, but the bill was opposed by Trump. Biden has pushed back on Republican claims that he could secure the border without Congress.

Kennedy has stated that he supports securing the border, including efforts like Operation Lone Star by states in the absence of federal action.

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