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Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are asking voter to choose between an immigration crackdown and reproductive rights<br> <br> <br> <br> As their race for the US presidency comes down to the wire, each <br> <br> major candidate has leaned heavily on a favorite theme -- abortion rights for Democrat Kamala Harris and border security <br> <br> for Republican Donald Trump.<br> <br> <br> <br> In Arizona, their ideological duel has reached a white-hot peak, with both topics the subject <br> <br> of fiercely debated ballot referendums.<br> <br> <br> <br> And in this key southwestern state -- where the billionaire Trump lost to President Joe Biden in 2020 by a tiny margin of about 10,500 votes <br> <br> -- every ballot truly will count.<br> <br> <br> <br> In the mid-sized city of Tucson, hundreds of volunteers in orange T-shirts were going door-to-door to try to persuade voters to <br> <br> back a ballot measure to inscribe abortion rights in the <br> <br> state constitution -- and, while they're at it, to vote <br> <br> for Vice President Harris.<br> <br> <br> <br> To Grace Ireland, a 26-year-old activist, the abortion restrictions imposed <br> <br> by several Republican-controlled states amount to "a public health crisis that Donald Trump and the Republicans have created."<br> <br> <br> <br> She added, "Democrats and Kamala Harris are trying to push us forward and protect women's health care and protect our democracy and protect all people."<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Une pancarte barrée du slogan "L'indifférence aux élections est dangereuse", <br> <br> à Tucson, en Arizona, le 16 octobre 2024<br> <br> <br> <br> Since 2022, when the US Supreme Court ended the constitutional <br> <br> protection of federal abortion rights, Ireland, a registered nurse, has <br> <br> worked in several states where abortion is banned or severely <br> <br> limited.<br> <br> <br> <br> Those restrictions have had sometimes disastrous consequences for women having <br> <br> problem pregnancies or carrying nonviable fetuses when doctors refuse to treat them.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> "Women are going septic and dying because they cannot receive the care that they need," she told AFP.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> - 'Abortion is murder' -<br> <br> <br> <br> As Ireland carries her message to potential voters, she noted, particularly <br> <br> to young people who may be less likely to vote, that it was Donald Trump who appointed the three justices who tipped the <br> <br> Supreme Court against abortion rights.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Donald Trump lors d'un meeting à Tempe, en Arizona, le 24 octobre 2024<br> <br> <br> <br> "It's important to reiterate that Donald Trump and these abortion bans are one and the same," Ireland said.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> But in Tucson there is little unanimity among young voters.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> "I do think that abortion is murder," said Pedro Lopez, a 20-year-old college student.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> "There are cases of incest or rape" that merit exceptions, he conceded, "but that's very small."<br> <br> <br> <br> He also worries about the flow of undocumented migrants that have entered the country from Mexico during the Biden-Harris administration.<br> <br> <br> <br> "People that are entering the United States illegally... should be sent back to where they came from," <br> <br> he said.<br> <br> <br> <br> "My grandparents migrated from Mexico to the United States, and they did it the right way."<br> <br> <br> <br> So he plans not only to vote for Trump, but to back the proposal to let <br> <br> local law enforcement detain, arrest and prosecute anyone suspected of having <br> <br> entered the country illegally -- powers normally reserved to the border police who work <br> <br> for the federal government.<br> <br> <br> <br> "I know people that work for the Border Patrol, and they're really upset because this current administration has really tied their hands up. They're not really able to do anything," Lopez <br> <br> said.<br> <br> <br> <br> - Mixed impact -<br> <br> <br> <br> The major political parties see the competing referendums as offering an opportunity to mobilize more people to vote -- on ballot questions at <br> <br> the very heart of the two presidential campaigns.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Anti-abortion activists demonstrate outside a clinic in Phoenix, Arizona on April 18, 2024<br> <br> <br> <br> But the referendums may not have the clear impact on the race for the White House <br> <br> that activists hope.<br> <br> <br> <br> Polls show Trump and Harris running neck-and-neck in Arizona, with <br> <br> the Republican holding a very narrow lead.<br> <br> <br> <br> Both ballot questions, meantime, have drawn strong <br> <br> support and both appear likely to pass.<br> <br> <br> <br> So the abortion issue may not be "helping Democrats in the way that they would hope," said Jenny Brian, a professor of bioethics at Arizona State University.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Many Republican women will vote both to protect abortion rights and to bring Trump <br> <br> back to the White House, Brian said.<br> <br> <br> <br> Though abortion is sometimes framed as a Democrat vs.<br> <br> Republican issue, the Republican Party includes "a broad spectrum of views on the topic," an issue <br> <br> that also raises conservatives' concerns about "government interference," she added.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> The same dynamic applies to immigration, with the tougher language on the Arizona <br> <br> ballot question finding support not just among Trump Republicans but also <br> <br> "moderates and even many Democrats," said John Kavanagh, a Republican and an Arizona state <br> <br> senator.<br> <br> <br> <br> The 74-year-old Kavanagh is unimpressed by Harris's recent toughening on migration, specifically her promise to maintain the partial closing of the border Biden ordered in recent months.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> The vice president, Kavanagh said, is "running away faster from her open-border policy than an illegal immigrant that runs away from the Border Patrol."<br> <br> <br> <br> Review my homepage: พวงหรีดงานศพ - https://notes.io/w6aUn
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