Trump visits southern border to blast Harris' bloody immigration policy hours before her acceptance speech
Donald Trump visited the southern border Thursday to highlight the bloody impact of Kamala Harris' immigration agenda, hours before she formally accepted her party's nomination for president.
Harris mentioned the border only briefly in her convention speech Thursday night, in which she claimed to be tough on illegal immigration.
Harris ignores crime victims
The southern border crisis is one of the biggest vulnerabilities of Harris' presidential campaign, with some 10 million illegal border crossings recorded since she entered office in January 2021.
A series of shocking crimes have added to public concern with the porous border. Trump was joined in Arizona Thursday by the grieving mother of 12-year-old Houston girl Jocelyn Nungaray, who was strangled by two Venezuelan nationals and dumped in a creek.
Trump correctly predicted that Harris' acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago would ignore high-profile victims of migrant crime, like Nungaray and Laken Riley.
“As Kamala gives her convention speech tonight, she will not mention the victims, she won’t even talk about them — although now that she sees us, maybe she will,” Trump said.
“She’ll not say their names or express remorse to their families," Trump added.
Kamala acts tough
Democrats have been trying to paint Harris as tough on the border - while shifting blame for the border crisis on Trump, citing his role in undermining an immigration reform bill earlier this year.
In her brief remarks about the border Thursday, Harris accused Trump of sabotaging "the strongest border bill in decades" to help his campaign, even as she touted a "pathway to citizenship" for millions of illegal aliens already living in the country.
Trump has blasted Harris' sharp pivot on the border as disingenuous, noting she has been in office already for three and a half years - a period that saw illegal immigration soar to record levels.
“The choice is simple: Kamala’s mass amnesty of criminals, or President Trump’s mass deportation of criminals," Trump said Thursday.
Meanwhile, a pro-Trump group, Building America's Future rolled out a $500,000 ad campaign Thursday in battleground states challenging Harris to acknowledge women and girls murdered by illegal aliens.
The ad contrasts the murders with Harris' light attitude in a notorious 2021 interview, in which she joked, "not today" when asked if she would visit the border.