Former President Donald Trump will visit the U.S.-Mexico border on Thursday to highlight the Biden-Harris administration's unwillingness to address the historic migrant crisis until just five months before November's election.
Trump will visit Arizona's Cochise County hours before Vice President Kamala Harris formally accepts her party's presidential nomination at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
"America is facing our country's worst border crisis because of border Czar Kamala Harris," the Trump campaign wrote in a post on its website.
"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 number of border crossings reported by U.S. Customs and Border Protection has dropped in recent months after President Joe Biden issued a June executive order that halted asylum processing at the border when illegal entries reach a threshold deemed excessive.
Trump on Wednesday posted on Truth Social about the trip.
"Tomorrow, I will be going to the Southern Border to address the plague of Migrant Crime and Migrant Rape that so-called Border Czar, Comrade Kamala Harris, has unleashed on America. This nightmare ends, and ends immediately, with our VICTORY in November!" Trump wrote while also sharing an X post about illegal aliens being arrested after two women were raped in New York City.
Cochise County sits on the Arizona-New Mexico border, as well as the southern border.
Trump is expected to talk about crimes committed by immigrants who illegally crossed the border, the lack of jobs available to Americans, and the fentanyl epidemic, the No. 1 cause of death in U.S. adults between the ages of 18 and 45, the Washington Examiner reported.
Cochise County Sheriff Mark Dannels is expected to be among the people who join Trump at the border.
"While failed border czar Kamala Harris adopts the Biden Basement strategy to hide from the illegal immigrant invasion created by her radical policies, President Trump will be visiting the southern border again," Taylor Rogers, RNC spokesperson, told Newsweek.
"President Trump knows how important the border crisis is to Americans and will once again deliver on his promise to stop the invasion, secure the border, and make America safe."
Arizona is considered to be one of a handful of swing states that will determine the outcome of the presidential election.
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