In Arizona, JD Vance Visits Half-Finished Border Wall

COCHISE COUNTY—On the U.S. side of the southern border, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) stood before a gap—a hole in the border wall—as he prepared to speak.

As the land rose behind him, the thin, rust-brown line separating the United States from Mexico blinked out: wall, wall, wall, then nothing at all.

“We see the border wall sitting here, waiting to be completed behind us,” Vance, the Republican vice presidential nominee, said during his Aug. 1 trip to a part of rural Cochise County south of Sierra Vista.

Unused wall material was stacked up nearby, looking every bit the casualty of partisan politics.

President Joe Biden halted wall construction on day one through an executive order.

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