Exclusive | Arizona rancher calls out Kamala Harris for last-minute border trip, says she encouraged illegal immigration
Vice President Kamala Harris is set to make an appearance at the Arizona border on Friday.But one nearby rancher is crying foul for only now looking like she cares.
“Donald Trump built the wall and upheld our immigration laws.On day one, she stopped the wall and encouraged illegal immigration,” Tyler Klump, whose cattle ranch on the Arizona border in Douglas is a super highway for illegal crossings from Mexico, told The Post.Klump says he believes the Democratic presidential nominee is trying to show she’s serious about the border crisis only because of the election.
Harris is set to tour the remote border stretch in Douglas Friday as part of a presidential campaign stop.As part of her role in the Biden administration, Harris was tasked with helping to stop the illegal crossings at the border by addressing the “root causes of migration.”But under her watch, illegal migrants poured over the border by the millions.“Either purposefully or not, she is hurting our country with illegal immigration,” Klump said.While on the campaign trail, Harris has referenced her time as a prosecutor in the “border state” of California — both as the state’s attorney general and San Francisco’s district attorney — where she says she cracked down on cartels.Harris has also pledged to sign a bipartisan border bill that failed to pass earlier this year, which would boost border patrol agents and funding for the wall.However, she made just one trip to the border as vice president in June 2021, when she traveled to El Paso, Texas.Border Patrol sources who were present for the visit previously told The Post they were instructed to completely sanitize the area to hide the true severity of the crisis during her trip.The Post toured Klump’s property in August when piles of trash had been left behind by smugglers.
The picturesque ranch was littered with discarded water bottles, backpacks, “carpet shoes” — footwear with slip-on pieces of carpet to hide footpri...