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Republican Donald Trump will travel to the U.S.-Mexico border later this week, as part of an effort by his campaign to increase political pressure and steal the spotlight from Kamala Harris. as Democrats celebrate their presidential nomination at their national convention in Chicago.

Trump will travel to Montezuma Pass, Arizona, on Thursday, the same day Harris is scheduled to give her acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention.

The border visit is part of a weeklong campaign that will take the former president to several key states, after weeks in which he held only one or two events a week. The Trump campaign and its staff’s roster of activities also includes daily news conferences, which aides hope will represent a stark contrast to Harris’ campaign, which has yet to hold an official news conference since securing the Democratic nomination.

The ramped-up campaign agenda comes as Trump’s campaign has been losing ground to Harris, who has made slight gains in national polls and fundraising. Trump’s advisers said they believe forcing the vice president to participate in unscheduled meetings and policy debates would ultimately be detrimental to her campaign.

“While Harris dodges questions from the press and attempts to backtrack on her extreme policies like the New Green Scam and bans on American energy, President Trump and Senator Vance will take their “America First” message to voters in battleground states across the country.”Trump advisers Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles said in a statement.

Harris has occasionally taken questions from reporters and has committed to a full interview later this month.

In Arizona, Trump is expected to meet with the Border Patrol union and members of the sheriff’s department and participate in a briefing accompanied by officials including the county sheriff and Brandon Judd, who is the former chairman of the National Border Patrol Council. He will then participate in a walk along the border before taking part in a listening session with ordinary Americans and making remarks to the press, according to campaign officials.

Before heading to the border, Trump is expected to hold a rally on Monday in Pennsylvania, a key debate state. Harris will tour the state by bus over the weekend before heading to Chicago for the convention.

On Tuesday, while Harris and her running mate, Tim Walz, will attend an event in Milwaukee, Trump will deliver a speech on “crime and security” in Howell, Michigan. On Wednesday, the day Walz is scheduled to give his acceptance speech, Trump will hold a national security rally in North Carolina. And after his trip to the border, Trump will attend a rally in Glendale, Arizona.

Harris’ entry into the race has upended a 2024 contest that was already unprecedented in its nature, with Trump running as the first former president to be convicted of a felony, surviving a failed assassination attempt at an outdoor rally and being forced to switch sides after Biden was ousted from the ticket by a Democratic pressure campaign.

Recent polls have shown a tight race in a campaign in which Trump was previously a consistent front-runner. A poll released Sunday shows Harris leading Trump by a narrow margin in a head-to-head matchup, 49% to 45%, among registered voters nationwide. The same poll, by the Washington Post, ABC News and Ipsos, showed a dead heat in early July when President Joe Biden was the candidate.

In Southport, in the north-west of England, eight minors and two adults who were at a club for a music and dance activity were attacked by a 17-year-old teenager with a knife, resulting in three girls aged 6, 7 and 9 being killed and the others seriously injured. From the moment the terrible crime became known, social networks – maliciously – dedicated themselves to spreading false information, claiming that the suspect was a Muslim refugee who arrived in the country illegally on a boat.

Violent riots by anti-immigrant groups in the United Kingdom immediately broke out, and since British law does not allow the identity of minors under 18 to be revealed, the disinformation echoed among the hordes of protesters who did not calm down even when the judge made the name public to neutralize the effects of the disinformation. It was Axel Muganwa Rudakubana, a British man born in Cardiff, Wales, to Rwandan parents.

The violence spread to major cities including Manchester, Liverpool, Bristol, Bolton and London, where anti-immigrant protesters not only continued to chant “Enough is enough – Stop the boats” banners, but also attacked mosques and several hotels in northern towns housing hundreds of asylum seekers, who, in the midst of terror, reinforced the doors of their rooms with refrigerators and furniture before being transferred.

Patriotic Alternative, the Defence League and other extremist organisations, as well as anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant movements, shared photos of the rampaging horde (many with Nazi tattoos). Counter-marches in support of refugees took place in several cities in defence of diversity, around 2,000 people in Bristol prevented a group of extremists from attacking the offices of refugee lawyers, and in Newcastle around 1,000 protesters, most of them Muslim, stood outside a migration services centre that had been targeted by the far right.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer was quick to point out that this was not a protest that had gotten out of hand: “This is a group of individuals who are absolutely determined to commit violence” and that is why he has formed an “active force” of special agents to counter it. This is how the immediate identification of those involved in the incident and those who foment violence online is taking place.

More than 500 people are being prosecuted and sentenced by the courts with “substantial sentences”. This decisive and rapid response by the British criminal justice system was praised by Starmer, who considered it “a powerful message to anyone involved, whether directly or online”.

British Conservatives David Cameron, Theresa May and Boris Johnson, in their determined bid for Brexit, with the intention of recovering the votes of the far right, claimed that migrants would decrease significantly, although the Office of Statistics (ONS) indicated in 2023 that net migration – people arriving minus those leaving – in 2022 reached 606,000 individuals; that is, 164,000 more than in 2021 and practically triple the net migration of 2019.

So it seems that the answers that the British are looking for are not available to malicious politicians and influencers.