The nation’s southern border has joined the early primary states as must-visits for Republican presidential contenders seeking to court the party’s voters.
Sen. Tim Scott was the latest to make the pilgrimage, visiting Yuma to get a first-hand look at one of the hotspots on President Biden’s border. He held a roundtable, where he heard the county sheriff describe the chaos of people streaming over and heard from a Spanish-speaking mother who shared the story of her 16-year-old son whose life was claimed by an overdose of fentanyl, the deadly synthetic opioid that’s become the major money-maker for smuggling cartels.
They come to gather intelligence about the situation on the ground, which can often get lost in translation between agents on the front lines and the politicians and news accounts in Washington. “That’s when the public really started to take notice of, ‘Hey, there is this major, major problem and the only thing that politicians talk about to solve the problem is to legalize these people that violate our laws,’” Mr. Judd said. “It really, really upset the public. I mean it really upset them.”
That’s just as true for the presidential hopefuls, who show up to collect the kinds of stories they can deploy on the campaign trail to show they understand the suffering of border communities under Mr. Biden.
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