America's fentanyl crisis is being turned against immigrants and into an election strategy

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With just five days until the election, Donald Trump's campaign is hammering home a simple message: Illegal immigrants bring drugs and crime to North Carolina — and they say Kamala Harris is to blame.
The state capital of Raleigh is more than 2,400 kilometres from the US/Mexico border.
Despite that distance, in semi-rural Rockingham County, near the city of Greensboro, that message is delivered by Sheriff Sam Page, a Republican and a campaigner against immigration at the border.
He says an uncontrolled border is bringing crime to North Carolina. Adam Harvey reports.
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