An Arizona farmer whose remote property is at the very end of the unfinished southern border wall told Fox News Digital he has seen thousands of illegals cross into the United States under the Biden-Harris administration and he worries many of them have ties to cartels or come from the Middle East.
He has criticized Vice President Harris’ tenure as President Biden’s representative on immigration, as he says cameras show hundreds of illegal immigrants crossing into the US from the end of the border wall every day.
“She’s the chieftain of the border, she always has been the chieftain of the border, and she has completely failed to stop people from coming into our country,” said Jim Chilton, an Arizona rancher whose 50,000-acre property includes formerly unceded land. President Trump’s border wall.
“For the last six months, we’ve been seeing an average of about 100 people a day coming in from Mexico at the end of the wall,” he told Fox News Digital. “And these are people who don’t hide. He said others, escorted by cartel smugglers, wear camouflage and carpet shoes and try to avoid being caught.”
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Vice President Harris visits the El Paso Central Processing Center in Texas, near the United States and Mexico border, on June 25, 2021. (Reuters/Evelyn Hockstein)
“We have not seen any shortage of them either,” he said. “On Saturday, I met a group of about a dozen people. They appeared to be from the Middle East, and they were in very bad condition.”
He gave them water and reported the encounter to the Samaritans nonprofit group, also known as the Border Patrol.
Still images from motion-activated surveillance cameras show a group of people in camouflage sneaking around an unfinished section of the southern border wall and entering an Arizona rancher’s property in May 2024. (Courtesy of Jim Chilton)
“Vice President Harris, you have not secured the border. I heard you say it was secure. It’s not secure. And we need to secure the border at the international border. We are a sovereign country.”
Chilton has installed five motion-activated cameras on his farm — just one for every 10,000 acres.
“Since Biden was elected and took office, I’ve taken photos of 3,550 people on my motion-activated cameras,” he said.
He said they could be seen wearing camouflage clothing and trying to hide themselves by stuffing strips of carpet into their shoes. In addition, he estimated that another 5,000 people crossed his property in April alone without trying to hide.
Still images from motion-activated surveillance cameras show a group of people in camouflage sneaking around an unfinished section of the southern border wall and entering an Arizona rancher’s property in May 2024. (Courtesy of Jim Chilton)
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While Harris and her supporters have distanced themselves from the crisis at the border and rejected the “border czar” label, the House of Representatives said it rejected the “border czar” label. officially reprimanded him Last week.
“We have become the world’s dumping ground, and we will not tolerate it any more.”
Trump, speaking at a campaign rally last Wednesday, called them the “architects of the border invasion” and blamed the current administration for record illegal immigration, pointing to a chart that shows historic lows at the end of his presidency — and the highest levels ever under Biden and Harris last March.
“They inherited the best border in American history and they turned it into the worst border in the world,” he said, adding that the current administration has halted construction of the border wall, defended sanctuary city policies, and ended their “Remain in Mexico” policy.
Trump cited a recent Homeland Security warning about a Venezuelan prison gang, the Tren de Aragua, which targets police for murder, as well as a number of high-profile crimes against women and girls across the country, including the recent murder of 12-year-old Joselyn Nungare of Houston, who was sexually assaulted, strangled and thrown off a bridge. Police arrested two illegals from Venezuela in connection with the killing.
“If I’m elected, we’ll start working from day one.” The biggest exile “The greatest challenge in the world is to get our citizens to live safe and healthy lives,” Trump said.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump holds a campaign rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on July 31, 2024. (Reuters/Elizabeth Frantz)
For relatives of the victims like joslyn And for ordinary citizens like Chilton, evidence of the border’s failure has become part of daily life.
Chilton said it can take anywhere from 45 minutes to more than an hour for police officers to respond to his remote property in an emergency.
“We have to defend ourselves the same way my ancestors had to, because we have no real law enforcement officers,” he said. “And I’m angry. I have five and a half miles of the international border, and Trump’s wall comes out five miles. The end of the wall is on my farm.”
Still images from motion-activated surveillance cameras show a group of people in camouflage sneaking around an unfinished section of the southern border wall and entering an Arizona rancher’s property in May 2024. (Courtesy of Jim Chilton)
Now, he said, “cartel scouts” roam the mountains, taking people in to protect them from detection. They can bring in terrorists and criminals, he said.
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He said that in addition, “economic immigrants” are also coming in large numbers, but they do not try to hide. They come to the US at the end of the wall and deliberately hope to run into the border patrol.
“The economic migrants that are being held are from all over the world,” Chilton said. “I think about a dozen people I met last Saturday were from the Middle East. They looked like Syrians to me … there were so many people from all over the world, from Africa, Bangladesh, India. It’s unbelievable.”
Fox News Digital has reached out to Harris for comment.
Fox News’ Brooke Curto contributed to this report.
