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Mariannette Miller-Meeks

Her official border security page sets out a series of figures on the previous administration's border record and lists her votes for the SAVE Act requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote and for the Laken Riley Act requiring ICE to arrest people charged with theft offences, and her cosponsorship of a bill making it a crime to flee a pursuing officer.

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Christina Bohannan

Her position is in her own posts rather than on her campaign site. On July 6, 2026, quoting a post of her opponent's about border policies, she wrote "Miller-Meeks knows I disagreed with Biden on immigration and that I have always said we must secure the border." and said her opponent had heard it directly from her, sitting across a table, on live television during their last debate. That is the only post on the subject among the 179 her account published from July 1, 2026 to the retrieval on September 13, 2026, collected in full and exhausted rather than stopped at a cap; immigrat, border, deport, migrant and asylum return nothing in the other 178, and ICE never appears there as the agency's name. Her site carries nothing on it: no section on immigration or the border appears among the eight sections of her campaign priorities page, and this desk read her whole site through its own content interface, all 45 items it serves, 29 posts that are its news archive, 8 pages and 8 priorities, where immigrat, border and deport return nothing and ICE never appears as the agency's name either. The campaign's own framing of freedom covers speech, property, education, health care decisions and reproductive rights rather than immigration.

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Michael Bridgford

His campaign issues page carries no immigration panel, but his site's News page carries his own words on the border: it reproduces his answer on WHBF's 4 The Record of August 23, 2026: "I believe we need a secure border. I think that's a policy that Republicans support." The same answer pairs that with stepping away from the trade wars, which he calls a policy Democrats support. A second item on that page, a WHO 13 interview of April 16, 2026, lists immigration among the subjects he discussed. The eleven issue panels themselves name neither immigration nor the border; the closest thing in them is a pledge in his agriculture panel to ban foreign adversaries, naming China and Russia, from buying American farmland.

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