Arizona Sheriff Mark Lamb said the Biden administration wanted to “hide the truth from the American public” before Vice President Kamala Harris visited Arizona.

The Pinal County Sheriff said:Fox & FriendsThursday as the Biden administration refuses to address the crisis on the southern border and continues to try to “cover up the truth.”

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“It raises a lot of questions for us: whether fentanyl is killing American citizens and poisoning them every day, whether it is being trafficked into the sex trade and the drug trade here in America. is what we deal with on a daily basis. This is Joe Biden’s policy and Kamala Harris’ Lack of Touring At the border, whether in Texas or Arizona,” he said.

Additionally, Lam said he hopes border policy will return to the Trump era because “it worked.”

Mayor of Mesa, Arizona John Giles said Harris avoiding borders on her travels “is missing an opportunity to draw attention to the security issues we face.”

Giles said on Thursday’s “Fox & Friends First” that the influx of drugs across the southern border is “absolutely impacting” his city.

“In the last two months we have recovered 800,000 fentanyl tablets Mesa used over 200 pounds of methamphetamine last month. There is absolutely a security problem at the border that the Vice President wants to pay more attention to and commit more resources to. ”

Giles says, “There is a crisis on our borders,” at title 42 When it is no longer in force, there will be a “massive surge” of immigration.

Giles praised New York City Mayor Eric Adams for speaking out, saying there is “a responsibility that should be shared throughout Washington, D.C.”

of border guard On Tuesday, unions held Vice President Kamala Harris responsible for border control, saying the crisis had only worsened under her oversight.

“If you were given a job two years ago and had a clear goal to cut it, illegal immigration, and you sit back and do nothing while illegal immigration explodes to unprecedented levels. You should be fired and replaced. union tweetedincluding a picture of the Vice President.

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Over 200,000 monthly encounters with migrants have continued for the past nine months. For comparison, throughout fiscal year 2020 he had 458,000 immigrant encounters.

FY21 surpassed 1.7 million and FY22 broke that record. 2.3 million encounters.

Bradford Betz of Fox News contributed to this report.