San Antonio Standard

U.S. Sen. and Republican Vice President nominee J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) said Americans are still suffering from the Biden-Harris Administration's open border after a San Antonio police officer was shot by an illegal alien. 

"Our illustrious Border Czar let this guy go free," Vance said in a post on X. "He just shot a cop. How many more Americans will needlessly suffer because of Kamala’s open border?"

Venezuelan citizen Jorge Chacon-Gutierrez, 25, shot a San Antonio police officer with a rifle after officers responded to a call for domestic violence at his location. A female officer was shot multiple times and underwent surgery, and is expected to survive. 

Chacon-Gutierrez was previously apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol agents in Eagle Pass, Texas in November of 2023 for illegally crossing the border, but was released into the U.S. after being given a court date in 2026. 

Biden announced on March 24, 2021 his appointment of Harris “to lead efforts to stamp migration across the U.S.-Mexico border.”

"This new surge we’re dealing with now started with the last administration, but it’s our responsibility to deal with it humanely and to stop what’s happening," said Biden. "This increase has been consequential, but the vice president’s agreed – among the multiple other things I have her leading and I appreciate it – agreed to lead our diplomatic effort and work with those nations to accept the returnees and enhance migration enforcement at their borders."

Since Harris’ appointment, the “surge” of illegal aliens crossing the U.S.-Mexico border has grown worse.

During fiscal year 2024 to date, CBP has arrested 35,178 illegal aliens who have previous criminal convictions or who are wanted by law enforcement.

13.828 of these arrests have been made by the U.S. Border Patrol, and 21,350 of these arrests have been made by the CBP’s Office of Field Operations. The CBP’s 2024 fiscal year runs from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2024.

Harris, who was elected as the first female Vice President, has become the presumptive Democrat nominee for the upcoming presidential election after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race and endorsed her in an X post on July 21. Before being elected as Vice President, Harris served as the District Attorney of San Francisco, the Attorney General of California, and as a U.S. Senator from California. 

Vance was first elected to serve Ohio in the U.S. Senate in the Nov. 2022 General Election. He defeated U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio), winning 53% to Ryan’s 47%. Vance served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 2003 to 2007, graduated from Ohio State University, and received a J.D. from Yale University Law School.

He also is the author of the 2016 book, “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis,” which reached The New York Times Bestseller list in 2016 and 2017. A Middletown, Ohio native, Vance lives with his wife and three children.