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President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that he will visit the southern border in Arizona on Thursday.
The visit will take place in Cochise County to address to the ongoing border crisis under the Biden-Harris administration.
“America is facing our country’s worst border crisis because of border Czar Kamala Harris,” the Trump campaign said in a statement.
“Despite nearly 10 million illegal immigrant crossings in the last three and a half years, at least 99 individuals on the terrorist watch list being released into our country, deadly drugs like fentanyl being peddled in by cartels and poisoning American communities, and a huge increase in crime and chaos caused by illegal immigrants — there is no end in sight for Kamala Harris’ border crisis,” the statement added.
The statement then focused on crimes against Americans like Jocelyn Nungaray, Laken Riley’, and Rachel Morin.
Nungaray, a 12-year-old girl who was killed in North Houston, Texas, became a major story after two Venezuelan nationals were charged with her June murder.
Riley was allegedly killed by 26-year-old Venezuelan man Jose Ibarra. Ibarra entered the U.S. across the southern border at El Paso, Texas, in 2022 and was freed by border patrol.
Morin was allegedly killed by 23-year-old Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez. The man was caught by Border Patrol three times in 2023 and returned to Mexico before successfully entering as a gotaway.
In addition to high-profile murder cases, the statement emphasized the concern of drug trafficking along the southern border.
“Over half of the total fentanyl pills that enter our country originate from the Arizona border. In Maricopa County, more than three people die every day on average due to fentanyl,” the statement noted.
The Trump campaign again emphasized the commitment to deport many of the illegal immigrants admitted into the U.S. under the Biden-Harris administration.
“President Donald J. Trump knows that the people of Arizona and the rest of the country cannot take another four years of a missing-in-action border Czar who refuses to act to secure our border and protect our country. President Trump will Make America Great Again by stopping the migrant invasion and carrying out the largest deportation operation in American history,” the statement concluded.