Arizona rancher calls Kamala Harris for last-minute border visit

Vice President Kamala Harris is set to appear at the Arizona border on Friday.

But a nearby cattle farmer is screaming because now she seems to care.

“Donald Trump built the wall and upheld our immigration laws. “On day one, he stopped the wall and encouraged illegal immigration,” said Tyler Clump, who owns a cattle ranch on the Arizona border in Douglas. Superhighway for illegal crossings from Mexicotold The Post.

Klump says she believes the Democratic presidential nominee is just trying to show she's serious about the border crisis because of the election.

Harris is scheduled to visit the remote border area in Douglas on Friday as part of the presidential campaign.

As part of her role in the Biden administration, Harris was Tasked with helping prevent illegal crossings By addressing the “root causes of migration” at the border.

But under his watch lakhs of illegal immigrants crossed the border.

“Either knowingly or not, she is hurting our country with illegal immigration,” Klump said.

During the campaign, Harris has referred to her time as a prosecutor.border stateof California – both as state attorney general and district attorney of San Francisco – where she says she cracked down on the cartels.

Harris has also promised to sign a bipartisan border bill that failed to pass earlier this year, which would boost funding for Border Patrol agents and the wall.

However, he made only one trip to the border as vice president, in June 2021, when he traveled to El Paso, Texas.

Border Patrol sources who were present for the visit The Post was first told He was instructed to completely sanitize the area during his visit to hide the true severity of the crisis.

The Post visited Klump's property in August when piles of trash were left behind by smugglers.

The picturesque fields were littered with discarded water bottles, backpacks, “carpet shoes” – shoes with slip-on pieces of carpet to hide footprints in the sand – and stairs used to climb the border wall.

Sometimes, cows on Clump's farm accidentally eat garbage, which can make them sick or even die.

“It has a direct impact on my cattle and my livelihood… It has killed my cattle. “I lost a huge amount of money,” Klump said at the time.

in recent months, Illegal migrant crossings have reached new lows to the Biden-Harris administration following new restrictions on asylum access.

The Border Patrol recorded nearly 83,000 migrant encounters in June, 56,000 in July and 58,000 in August – down from 250,000 in December.

Earlier, the Biden-Harris administration reported record levels of illegal crossings at the southern border, as well as allowing 1.3 million migrants Use the phone app port of entry appointment to book a flight directly or enter the US.

However, during those lean months, Klump has still seen smugglers arrive and try to avoid detection as they hide both drugs and people across the border.

“Foot traffic is as high as it's ever been,” Klump previously said.

At the time, Klump shared a message to Harris: “Kamala, you're not helping anything. You're hurting us,'' he said.

“You're putting money into the hands of cartels and into the hands of a lot of people, but you're certainly not helping your constituents,” Klump said.

The Arizona border is largely controlled by? The infamous Mexican Sinaloa CartelWhich pumps the supply of illegal fentanyl into the US.

In 2022, 50% of deadly fentanyl seized in America Was confiscated in Arizona.