The Trump campaign slammed Vice President Kamala Harris as a “liar” and “desperate” after her campaign ran a TV ad claiming former President Trump’s policies led to a “violent crime wave,” and told Fox News Digital that Harris is a “pro-open borders, soft on crime liberal.”
The Harris campaign aired a crime-focused television ad the day after the vice president accepted the Democratic presidential nomination in Chicago, claiming that “violent crime has decreased” during her term in office.
“Her record as District Attorney and Attorney General has put child abusers, cyber predators and violent criminals behind bars and shut down international drug cartels,” the ad states. “And under Donald Trump? A wave of violent crime. And Trump ordered MAGA extremists to tear up a bipartisan border security agreement.”
“Trump just talks bullshit. Kamala Harris is bullshit.”
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Former President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris (Getty Images)
Caroline Leavitt, national spokeswoman for the Trump campaign, called Harris a “liar.”
“The truth is, as soon as they took office, Kamala and Biden reversed every single one of President Trump’s effective immigration policies and opened the border to criminals, terrorists and drug cartels,” Leavitt told Fox News Digital. “If Border Commissioner Harris really wants to secure the border, why doesn’t she go back to Washington and do it today?”
“She won’t do that because she’s an open-border, soft-on-crime liberal.”
Meanwhile, the Trump campaign wrote on its Twitter account that violent crime “is not declining; it has increased by nearly 25% in 66 major American cities and Kamala has governed three of the most murderous four-year periods in the last 25 years.”
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“Under Kamala’s Administration, illegal immigrants who are allowed into the country brutally rape and murder our citizens,” the campaign continued, adding that as district attorney, Harris “was known for being soft on crime even as San Francisco’s murder rate was the highest it’s been in a decade.”
The campaign argued that Harris had set a “model for pro-Soros prosecutors across the country.”
“Far from ‘shutting down’ the drug cartels, unprecedented amounts of deadly drugs have flooded across the border and devastated our communities,” the campaign continued. “The Sinaloa Cartel is reaping record profits under Camara’s administration.”
Regarding the bipartisan border bill, the Trump campaign argued that it would “create a fast track to citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants.”
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The Trump campaign is referring to Jocelyn Nangaray, Laken Riley and Rachel Morin, Americans who were allegedly killed by illegal immigrants.
Former Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump comforts Patty Morin, the mother of Rachel Morin, in southern Sierra Vista, Arizona, on Aug. 22, 2024. Rachel was allegedly killed by an illegal immigrant at the U.S.-Mexico border. (Rebecca Noble)
Two Venezuelan nationals, 21-year-old Johan Jose Martinez Rangel and 26-year-old Franklin Jose Peña Ramos, have been charged with murder in connection to the death of 12-year-old Nungaray. Illegally crossed the border He entered the United States earlier this year and is accused of strangling a boy in his early teens to death in June.
Jose Ibarra, a 26-year-old Venezuelan immigrant, is charged with the murder of 22-year-old Riley. Via El Paso, Texas, USA He was released on border parole in 2022. He initially lived in New York City before moving to Athens, Georgia, where he was arrested on suspicion of child endangerment.
Ibarra is charged with malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault, aggravated battery, false imprisonment, kidnapping, interfering with a 911 call and concealing the death of another in connection with Riley’s murder.
The man accused of killing Morin, Victor Antonio Martinez Hernandez, a 23-year-old Salvadoran national, was also in the country illegally, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Border Patrol This happened three times within a matter of days in January 2023 and February 2023, and each time he was deported to Mexico under Title 42.
Republican presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump speaks at the U.S.-Mexico border south of Sierra Vista, Arizona, on August 22, 2024. (Rebecca Noble/Getty Images)
He then successfully entered the United States as a fugitive in February 2023 near El Paso, Texas, without being inspected by U.S. immigration officials, granted admission, or granted parole.
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During his visit to Arizona on Thursday, President Trump hosted Angel Moms who shared their stories of victims of illegal immigration crimes.
“We’ve been to the border many times over the years and have told many stories of casualties at the border, including the stories of our incredible Angel Moms,” Trump said. “While time does not heal all wounds, we have never seen anything on the scale and brutality that we are seeing right now in our country.”
“It’s an onslaught of violence.”
A Trump campaign official told Fox News Digital that the campaign’s strategy is to “continue to go hard on immigration and Kamala for dereliction of duty at the border.”
