(DCNF)—Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign is attempting to cast her as a tough-on-the-border candidate, but a former leader of the Border Patrol is warning the public not to buy it.
The Harris campaign has released a slate of advertisements that claim the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate would “fix the border” and crack down on illegal immigration by increasing the number of Border Patrol agents. However, retired Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott, who led the agency while Harris served as “border czar,” says voters must look at her record to understand how she would really handle border security.
“Look at the track record and dive into the details,” Scott said to the Daily Caller News Foundation. “It’s smoke and mirrors.”
“Just like the Senate bill, she supports more funding and more agents, but it’s to expedite the processing and flow of more illegal aliens into the United States quicker,” Scott said, referring to the now-dead Senate border deal that was quashed in the House earlier this year. “It’s not border security.”
In a campaign ad released in July, the Harris campaign claimed the vice president supports increasing the number of Border Patrol agents, supports new technology to block drugs from entering the U.S. and even faulted former President Donald Trump for not supporting the Senate border deal. The vice president doubled down on this approach with a new ad this week that casts her as a tough border-state prosecutor and reiterated her pledge to hire “thousands more” border agents.
The new campaign drive appears at odds with her history as a U.S. senator and as vice president.
When running for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020, Harris was among the majority of contestants who raised their hands when asked if they supported the decriminalization of illegal border crossings. As a senator, she once attempted to compare Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to the Ku Klux Klan and joined a list of Senate Democrats in formally opposing then-President Donald Trump’s efforts to increase the number of Border Patrol agents on the ground.
NumbersUSA, a group that supports more hawkish immigration policy, awarded her Senate career an F- rating for her support of a number of bills that, the organization argues, would’ve weakened border security and incentivized further illegal immigration.
Scott served as Border Patrol chief from roughly the last year of the Trump administration to the first seven months of the Biden-Harris administration, which overlapped with Harris’ assignment to address the root causes of illegal immigration from Central America. The retired chief confirmed to the DCNF that Harris never once spoke to him, even after her special designation as “border czar.”
“‘I support more funding for more agents,’” Scott said, mocking the new Harris ads. “Well what are you going to do with them?”
“She supports more funding to speed up the processing, not to patrol the border and enhance the technology on the border,” he explained. “When you dive in and look at her platform and everything she’s said, it’s very, very consistent.”
The retired chief noted that the Biden-Harris administration “redirected millions and millions” from enforcement operations within Border Patrol and other Customs and Border Protection (CBP) resources in order to process more illegal migrants into the country. He also blamed the administration for redirecting vast taxpayer resources to NGOs so they could fly illegal migrants to “wherever they want to go” instead of prioritizing enforcement.
“Border Security is preventing people from coming into our house without coming through that front door, which is a port of entry,” Scott stated. “It’s enforcing the law, not finding ways to work around it.”
Harris’ recent push to be seen as more of a border hawk also comes after she tapped Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, a Democrat who has a history of left-leaning actions on illegal immigration.
As governor, Walz signed into law legislation that allowed illegal migrants to obtain driver’s licenses and signed bills providing undocumented migrants with state-funded healthcare and free college tuition. During his gubernatorial candidacy in 2018, he publicly declared his support for making Minnesota a sanctuary state, which would largely prohibit local and state law enforcement officials from working with ICE agents to apprehend criminal aliens.
Walz has also opposed border security measures. As a congressman, he once called Trump’s border wall “ridiculous” and more recently quipped that he would invest in a ladder factory in regard to a border wall.
If recent polling is accurate, the Harris campaign will have hurdles in recasting her border security image. A Hard-Harris survey released late last month revealed that 69% of voters believe the vice president to be in favor of “open borders,” including a clear majority of Democratic voters.
The Harris campaign did not respond to a request for comment from the DCNF.
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Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
Families looking for a straightforward place to start can visit Heaven’s Harvest and use promo code Patriot for 15 percent off long-term storable food. The forecasts may yet soften, the strait may yet reopen, and we should pray they do. But hope is a fine thing to hold and a foolish thing to eat.
Kamala Harris is an anchor baby who had foreign parents at birth, she received her citizenship through the 14th amendment, she is a naturalized citizen, and did NOT receive her citizenship naturally… she is not eligible for either top office.
The Constitution Does Not Allow Children Born Of Non-Citizens To Become President Of The United States (nor VPOTUS), it requires a natural born citizen for either top positions.
Law of Nations, by Vattel, written in 1758 says:
“§ 212 – Citizens and Natives. The citizens are the members of the civil society; bound to this society by certain duties, and subject to its authority, they equally participate in its advantages. The natives, or natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens. As the society cannot exist and perpetuate itself otherwise than by the children of the citizens, those children naturally follow the condition of their fathers, and succeed to all their rights.”