Vice President Kamala Harris will be visiting the southern border Friday for the first time as the Democrats’ presidential nominee to bolster her credentials on immigration, Axios reported.

Harris has been trying to shed the title of “border czar” under President Joe Biden as the nation’s immigration crisis has reached record levels the past three-plus years. Harris, who has been attempting to position herself as a “border state prosecutor” in campaign ads, will visit Douglas, Arizona, across from Agua Prieta, Mexico.

According to a Harris campaign aide, Harris will push “the toughest bipartisan border security plan in a generation,” NBC News reported Wednesday.

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