Kamala Harris’ grim border czar legacy: 2,700 migrants who died crossing into US

The 15-year-old migrant boy was suffering from power exhaustion and grew agitated pinch smugglers connected his treacherous travel crossed nan US confederate separator — truthful they smothered him to decease successful beforehand of his horrified mother and dumped his assemblage successful nan West Texas desert. 

Terrell County Sheriff Thaddeus Cleveland recalled investigating nan June 2022 execution of nan teen — 1 of 42 migrants his agency has recovered nan dormant successful nan distant agelong of nan US-Mexico separator during nan Biden-Harris administration.

The gut-wrenching communicative isn’t an outlier: According to nan Government Accountability Office, 2,700 of migrants person perished crossing into nan US nether President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, who was appointed “border czar” successful 2021.

Cleveland believes nan administration’s policies are to blasted for nan spike successful deaths.

“The logic we person seen much deaths is because group judge nan authorities is allowing group into nan United States and therefore, they are taking much of a risk. Like different areas on nan southwest border, we excessively person seen a important summation successful forbidden aliens crossings, apprehensions and gotaways,” said Cleveland.

“With its unfastened separator policies, this management is astir decidedly to blasted for nan summation successful deaths. They person fixed those wanting to travel to America nan desire to consequence their lives.”

Before serving arsenic sheriff, Cleveland was a Border Patrol supplier successful nan aforesaid area, wherever they usually only recovered 1 assemblage a year.

Under nan Trump administration, location were astir 1,100 recorded migrant deaths crossed nan confederate border.

Harris was tasked pinch addressing nan “root causes of migration” 3 months into nan Biden administration. What followed was nan deadliest twelvemonth connected record astatine nan confederate separator successful nan fiscal twelvemonth 2022, erstwhile feds recorded 900 migrant deaths.

The United Nations International Office of Migration (IOM) branded nan confederate separator nan “world’s deadliest migrant onshore way aft nan record.

Since Harris took connected nan domiciled of stopping migration, nan sheriff says he’s been inundated pinch countless Facebook messages from loved ones searching for their family members they cognize crossed successful his rmote county. Sometimes he finds them, galore times he can’t.

“I don’t attraction if you’re a bully feline aliases bad guy, ineligible aliases illegal. I don’t want to spot anybody die. That’s still somebody’s loved one,” said Cleveland.

Cleveland said nan June 2022 teen’s gruesome lawsuit sticks pinch him, moreover successful spite of each he’s seen.

“I had been sheriff for conscionable a period and we sewage a telephone of a deceased. We went retired location and were told it’s apt gonna beryllium a murder,” Cleveland told The Post.

After failing to bring nan teen to heel, nan smugglers gave his mother a terrifying ultimatum: “either you do thing astir this, aliases we will,” Cleveland said.

The men forced nan mother to sound her boy retired pinch a stone to calm him down, but erstwhile it didn’t work, they forced nan group to dogpile connected apical of him. He died of asphyxiation.

The number of migrants who person died on nan US-Mexico separator is apt overmuch higher than recorded since immoderate bodies are ne'er recovered successful nan distant stretches of unforgiving terrain, Border Patrol root said.

Sometimes each that’s near of nan bodies are bones.

“I’ve encountered aliens successful each stages of decomposing,” said a Border Patrol source. “Dehydration, vulnerability and exhaustion are nan main killers.”

“June and July were bad, we were uncovering 1 to 2 a week,” nan root added.

Another root recalled galore mislaid to drownings successful nan rapids of nan Rio Grande River.

“People get swept nether aliases away,” said nan source.

A spokesperson for nan Harris run didn’t instantly respond to The Post’s petition for comment.