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    Democratic candidates tune out voter anxieties over border security

    by Evan Halper, Los Angeles Times Apr 26, 2019 5 minutes

    WASHINGTON - Few fights have Democrats more certain that they have the upper hand against President Donald Trump than the one over border security: His plans to build walls, separate immigrant families and punish asylum-seekers have alienated voters since he took office.

    Yet some Democrats fear their presidential candidates may embrace the one strategy that could dismay voters even more than Trump's emphasis on deportation - ignoring Americans' fears about porous borders altogether.

    The reluctance of Democratic candidates to address law and order challenges at the border has some of the party's seasoned operatives and activists fearing a trap.

    "If Democrats don't change their narrative on this, Trump is going to cut them up," said Jeff Faux, co-founder of the Economic Policy Institute, a think tank supported by organized labor. "They have to start dealing with this and convincing people

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