WATCH: Residents along the border trust Trump more than Harris on border security

Border residents in Texas and Arizona explained in interviews with Fox News Digital which presidential candidate they believe will best protect the southern border.

“Donald Trump has undoubtedly started sending these people home because he has done so before,” said a rancher from Quemado, Texas.

Border region residents have overwhelmingly expressed support for the return of former President Trump, rather than Vice President Kamala Harris, to the White House to secure the southern border.

“100% Trump,” said the gun shop owner from Del Rio, Texas, enthusiastically, adding that if elected, Trump would reinstate his administration’s border policies, stressing that they were better under Trump than under the Biden-Harris administration that replaced him.

“Trump… he’s the one who’s going to stop this,” said a resident of Sierra Vista, Arizona, who believes the former president will best handle the border crisis.

A resident of Arivaca, Arizona, said, “The Biden administration’s open border policy is having a major impact on our local community and I am definitely against open borders.”

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Almost 9 out of 10 voters say the situation in US-Mexico border is an emergency (44%) or a major problem (43%). That’s an increase from February, when about 8 in 10 said it was an emergency (41%) or a major problem (37%), according to the most recent national Fox News poll.

Concern about the border increased most among those under 30 (+20 points), black voters (+19), Democrats (+14), Hispanic voters (+12) and women (+12).

More guilt the The Biden administration for the lack of control at the border (71%, quite a bit) than for former President Trump and the Republican Senators for the failed immigration legislation (57%).

The poll also asks about policy ideas on immigration and border security and finds that 63 percent support deporting illegal immigrants to their home countries. While that’s down from 67 percent in 2023, it’s nowhere near the low of 52 percent in 2015, when the question was first asked.

Trump also has a lead of 19 percentage points over Harris when it comes to the question of who is most likely to be trusted to secure the border.

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After Fox Digital spoke to residents along the southern border, Harris changed her previous tone regarding the border wall.

Harris seems to be aware that an overly progressive stance on immigration policy could be politically damaging. According to Axios, if elected president, she has promised to spend hundreds of millions on building the wall along the southern border, something she previously opposed.

At the Democratic National Convention, Harris said she would sign the Senate’s bipartisan border bill, which Trump did not support. The bill would use hundreds of millions of unspent funds for the border wall. However, according to Harris’ advisers, the bill does not provide any additional funding for the border wall.

Trump and several Republicans sharply criticized the bill because it contains a provision that only allows the border to be closed if 5,000 illegal immigrants cross the border every day. It also provides for the billions of dollars that this would cost Ukraine and Israel.

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Elizabeth Heckman and Nikolas Lanum reported from Texas, Adam Shaw from Arizona. Fox News’ Victoria Balara and Andrew Mark Miller also contributed to this report.