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The Heinous Border Record Kamala Doesn't Want Voters to Know About

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Well, folks, she's doing it. Vice President Kamala Harris is finally making a real visit to the U.S.-Mexico border. 

After years of stalling and falsely claiming the border is secure, her visit to Arizona comes as she tries to redefine herself as a "tough on crime prosecutor" who has "taken on transnational gangs and drug cartels." But like everything else about her campaign, it’s all an act, and her record proves it. 

Since 2021, Harris, the Biden Border Czar, has overseen the largest influx of illegal immigration in American history. For human traffickers, the past three and a half years have been good for business — raking in $100 million a week and $5 billion per year. 

This, of course, was by design. It was, and still is, a way for Democrats to admit 15 million people into the country, with no plans to ever make them leave, and then use the issue against Republicans in order to solidify permanent Democratic power through mass amnesty. Harris admitted as much during an interview with MSNBC this week. 

“We need a comprehensive plan that includes what we need to do to fortify not only our border, but deal with the fact that we also need to create pathways for people to earn citizenship,” Harris said. 

But Harris’ record and dedication to that permanent power hasn’t come without a devastating, human cost. 

According to the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General, 300,000 children have been trafficked into the United States and lost by the Biden-Harris administration. 

“U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) could not monitor the location and status of all unaccompanied migrant children (UCs) or initiate removal proceedings as needed. During our ongoing audit to assess ICE’s ability to monitor the location and status of UCs who were released or transferred from the custody of the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), we learned ICE transferred more than 448,000 UCs to HHS from fiscal years 2019 to 2023. However, ICE was not able to account for the location of all UCs who were released by HHS and did not appear as scheduled in immigration court,” the report states. “As of May 2024, ICE had not served NTAs [notice to appear] on more than 291,000 UCs who therefore do not yet have an immigration court date.”

These children are abused, sex trafficked and sold into the underground labor market.

“Across the factory, another worker had failed to see Marcos crouched with his left arm deep inside the assembly line and turned it on,” The New York Times reported about a 14-year-old boy from Guatemala. “The belt caught the sleeve of Marcos’s baggy jacket and pulled him across the floor. Hard plastic teeth ripped through his muscles, tearing open his forearm down to the bone. By the time someone heard his screams and shut off the power, his arm was limp, a deep triangular gash running down the length of it.”

Harris’ open border policies have enabled these crimes against the most vulnerable and innocent, resulting in one of the biggest modern day slavery operations in history. 

When children aren’t being trafficked, they’re being killed by fentanyl brought into the country by the cartels. Like 15-year-old Weston Funder, who unknowingly took a laced pill. 

“Weston, like many teenagers, wanted to fit in. During his second semester of his freshman year of high school, at the early age of 15, in a moment of heavy peer pressure, he made a tragic mistake,” his mother, Anne Funder, recently testified. “He took something that a new ‘friend' gave to him. It wasn’t what he was told it was, and instead, it only contained the lethal poison, 'illicit fentanyl.’ On February 27, 2022, our world was shattered. That morning, my husband found Weston lifeless in his room. Weston’s whole future, all of our hopes and dreams for him, were stolen in an instant.”

Dangerous and satanic gangs like Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua have taken over apartment buildings in American towns, intimidating residents and engaging in turf wars. They’re also sexually abusing and killing American children. 

“Jocelyn Nungaray was brutally assaulted and murdered under a bridge by two men in Houston, Texas. According to police, Jocelyn was found dumped in a creek bed bound with rope and nude from the waist down. Her cause of death was later determined to be strangulation. Two illegal aliens from Venezuela, Franklin Jose Pena Ramos and Johan Jose Martinez-Rangel, both of whom were released by the Biden-Harris Administration earlier this year, have been charged with Jocelyn’s murder,” the Federation for American Immigration Reform reports. 

Every day, another American becomes a victim of illegal alien crime. 

None of this matters to Harris, who suddenly has found the will — with just weeks until the 2024 presidential election — to "care."