Grand Canyon Times

U.S. Sen. and Republican Vice President nominee J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) said Vice President Kamala Harris' border policies and plans for immigration reform are "fundamentally anti-American."

"Elizabeth Warren is so excited to elect Border Czar Kamala Harris because she knows Kamala wants to give mass amnesty to millions of illegal aliens," Vance said in a post on X. "Kamala's extreme border policies are fundamentally anti-American."

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) told CNN she believes the government needs to have "more resources in the states and cities that are supporting migrants, and to create a pathway to citizenship. All of that is part of what we need to do for comprehensive immigration reform. Kamala Harris will work with Congress and get that done."

Biden announced on March 24, 2021 his appointment of Harris “to lead efforts to stamp migration across the U.S.-Mexico border.”

"This new surge we’re dealing with now started with the last administration, but it’s our responsibility to deal with it humanely and to stop what’s happening," said Biden. "This increase has been consequential, but the vice president’s agreed – among the multiple other things I have her leading and I appreciate it – agreed to lead our diplomatic effort and work with those nations to accept the returnees and enhance migration enforcement at their borders."

Since Harris’ appointment, the “surge” of illegal aliens crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, particularly the Arizona portion, has grown worse.

There have been 406,441 total encounters in the Tucson Sector during fiscal year 2024, reported U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), with 225,725 of these encounters being from citizens of Mexico, 75,610 from Guatemala, 3,096 from Honduras, 2,892 from El Salvador, and 99,118 from citizens from other countries.

During fiscal year 2024 to date, CBP has arrested 35,178 illegal aliens who have previous criminal convictions or who are wanted by law enforcement.

13.828 of these arrests have been made by the U.S. Border Patrol, and 21,350 of these arrests have been made by the CBP’s Office of Field Operations. The CBP’s 2024 fiscal year runs from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2024.

Harris, who was elected as the first female Vice President, has become the presumptive Democrat nominee for the upcoming presidential election after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race and endorsed her in an X post on July 21. Before being elected as Vice President, Harris served as the District Attorney of San Francisco, the Attorney General of California, and as a U.S. Senator from California. 

Vance was first elected to serve Ohio in the U.S. Senate in the Nov. 2022 General Election. He defeated U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio), winning 53% to Ryan’s 47%. Vance served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 2003 to 2007, graduated from Ohio State University, and received a J.D. from Yale University Law School.

He also is the author of the 2016 book, “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis,” which reached The New York Times Bestseller list in 2016 and 2017. A Middletown, Ohio native, Vance lives with his wife and three children.