Republican presidential hopefuls are using the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to urge tougher security at the U.S.-Mexico border, in what political operatives call a novel attempt to link a foreign conflict to the domestic debate over immigration.
The reason for that link is two-fold, say the operatives and political strategists involved in the 2024 primary campaign.
While Republicans have long portrayed themselves as steadfast defenders of Israel, it is unlikely to be an election-defining issue, he said. That makes candidates more likely to reframe the conflict in domestic terms. Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, who is third in most polls behind former President Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, is among several Republican candidates who have used the conflict to push for tightened border controls.
Border Patrol agents do encounter individuals on the Terrorist Screening Dataset, or TSDS list, a system that tracks known or suspected terrorists, as well as family members and affiliates. Even those numbers may exaggerate the issue, as they include affiliates of the FARC, a guerrilla group in Colombia, DHS said. The U.S.in 2021, five years after it made peace with the Colombian government, and the vast majority of its members have laid down arms.Republicans have drawn a link between national security and border security before, albeit in broader terms.
"It's given Republican candidates an opening to play to base voters on illegal immigration," said Rob Godfrey, a political consultant and former senior Haley aide.
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