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Four years ago, I was reporting from the southern U.S. border when construction on the border wall was abruptly halted overnight after former President Joe Biden took office. Now, with President Donald Trump starting a second term, I headed back to the Arizona-Mexico border to report on what’s happening at ground zero under Trump 2.0. As dark fell, I was with Deputy Dan Brennan of the Criminal Interdiction Team in Cochise County, Arizona, when he spotted a rental car from Oregon with travel history – documented through an elaborate tracking system – that seemed suspicious. It turned out to be...

Vice President Kamala Harris will visit the U.S.-Mexico border near Douglas, Arizona, on Friday, and a local sheriff who will greet her at the airport revealed a message he will give her. Cochise County Sheriff Mark Dannels, who has served in his role as a border town lawman since 2012, told DailyMail.com that his home has been ravaged by President Joe Biden and VP Harris's border policies. He described how the rural area has been swamped with deaths, tragedies and crime related to the border, and that the Biden-Harris agenda has caused irreparable damage.

President Biden’s decision to stop border wall construction forced crews to put down tools and walk away in the middle of work — and left the border less secure than ever in some places, according to an Arizona sheriff whose county covers 83 miles of the boundary. There are locations where contractors had built the high-speed roads that are part of the border wall system, and which Border Patrol agents are able to use to patrol the new barrier. But when the stop-work order came down, they had not built the actual wall yet. The result: a smugglers’ roadway, where...