Vance to visit southern border as Trump campaign hits Harris on immigration

Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance will visit the U.S.-Mexico border on Thursday on behalf of the Trump campaign in the latest effort to attack Vice President Harris, the likely Democratic nominee, on immigration.

Vance will visit the border Thursday morning in Cochise County, Ariz., the Trump campaign said, as part of a multiday trip out West for fundraisers and rallies.

“President Donald J. Trump and Vice Presidential Nominee, Senator JD Vance are devastated to see the path of death and destruction American families are facing because of the radical-Left policies of the current administration,” the campaign said in a press release. “A Trump-Vance Administration will secure our border, begin the largest deportation operation in American history, and restore law and order to our country.”

Vance’s border visit is part of a concerted effort by the Trump campaign to attack Harris on immigration in the week since she became the likely Democratic nominee. Harris in 2021 was tasked with addressing the root causes of migration that have led citizens of Northern Triangle countries in Central America to flee to the U.S. Republicans have branded her the “border czar” over that role.

The Trump campaign earlier Tuesday released its first ad targeting Harris, and it was focused on her role addressing migration to the U.S. border.

House Republicans last week approved a resolution that condemned Harris as the Biden administration’s “border czar.”

The Harris campaign has pushed back by noting it was Trump who lobbied against Congress passing a bipartisan border security proposal earlier this year.