Trump-backed candidate for House of Representatives rips Biden’s ‘joke’ border policy for inviting gang violence to change state

PHOENIX – Abe Hamadeh, a Republican running for Congress in Arizona’s 8th congressional district, told Fox News Digital that Biden-Harris’ “radical” immigration policies are leading to more gang violence in the key swing state of Arizona, which is turning voters toward former President Trump drives.

“The border is the biggest problem for everyone,” Hamadeh told Fox News Digital. “Every time I’m in my district, it’s the number one issue that people talk about because they see the effects of the border crisis every day, and we’ve had nighttime burglaries and robberies in Arizona, especially in Maricopa County, this Chilean , illegal immigrants from Chile, this Chilean gang that broke into people’s homes.”

Hamadeh continued, “So you’re starting to see that it’s not just crime on the streets and in the inner cities, but it’s now moving into the sort of suburbs and that’s why everywhere I go, the border is the main issue.”

Earlier this year, Fox News Digital reported on a home theft ring operated by members of a South American criminal gang that targeted expensive homes in the Phoenix area, resulting in the arrest of three Chilean citizens living illegally in the United States. authorities said.

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Abe Hamadeh is running for Congress as a Republican in AZ-08 (Fox News)

The gang, also known as ‘tourist burglars’ and ‘dinner thieves’, has committed crimes across the country. Phoenix, and the suburbs of Scottsdale, Paradise Valley, Chandler, Gilbert and Peoria.

“People are right to be concerned,” Arizona GOP Chairwoman Gina Swoboda told Fox News Digital. “Take Scottsdale as an example. Scottsdale is a nice little suburb in Maricopa County and there’s been a huge increase in homelessness. There was a series of home robberies and the police said it was a Chilean gang. So a gang from Chile came and started It’s pretty routine to storm houses in Scottsdale and they called it like it was dinner time and you’re sitting at the table after working all day and now the Chilean gang comes to rob your house.”

“This is crazy.”

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Arizona Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake and Arizona Republican House candidate Abe Hamadeh. (Abe for Arizona)

Migrant gangs have gained national attention in recent months, especially in Aurora, Colorado, where a Venezuelan gang has been implicated in numerous crimes in the city.

Hamadeh told Fox News Digital that the Biden-Harris administration’s “radical” immigration policies are playing a major role in the increase in gang activity in Maricopa County.

“Everyone knows it’s a joke,” Hamadeh said of the immigration policies Harris put forward during her recent speech along the southern border. “We cannot escape the commercials that are constantly on display. She runs along our southern border with Trump’s border wall, which we all opposed. She is the most radical person to ever run for president.”

“Everyone in law enforcement, border patrol, everyone who knows what’s going on is supporting President Trump because Kamala Harris is in a position of power and hasn’t done anything about it. So we all know this is her attempt to try to make you righteous. But we know that the radical left is adamant about keeping our borders open, and that this creates a national security risk.”

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Former President Trump endorsed Republican Abe Hamadeh to represent Arizona’s 8th congressional district. (Abe for Arizona)

That threat to national security, Hamadeh told Fox News Digital, will ultimately lead voters to support Trump in a key swing state where 11 electoral votes could decide the election.

” Especially in my district, we have all these Taiwanese companies moving to my district for the $50 to $100 billion microchip industry. That creates a national security risk,” Hamadeh said. “It’s great for economic development, but we have an open border and we had 30,000 communist Chinese cross our southern border last year. Not vetted.”

‘That is an important target for the intelligence services. I’m a former military intelligence officer in the U.S. Army Reserve, and we’re now establishing a target here in Arizona that some of these foreign adversaries can take advantage of. Last week we discovered that Iran or someone else may have been sneaked by ten shoulder-fired missiles. I mean, we’re talking about the United States. How can we not secure our border? that’s why it’s problem number one and Kamala Harris is failing at it and that’s why she’s going to lose the election.”

Fox News Digital’s Louis Casiano contributed to this report

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