Former President Donald Trump on Friday assailed Vice President Kamala Harris for visiting Texas without making border security the focus of her stop.

Speaking to supporters in Austin, Trump accused Harris, his opponent in next month’s presidential election, of “a crime against humanity” for the Biden-Harris administration’s border policies. He called Texas “ground zero for the largest border invasion in the history of the world.”

Hardly a battleground state, Harris, too, is campaigning in the Lone Star State, too, Friday. She will deliver a speech on abortion rights in Houston, where she is expected to be joined by pop music superstar Beyoncé, according to sources familiar.

“Today Kamala is here in Texas to rub shoulders with woke celebrities,” Trump said. “Isn't that exciting? But she's not going to meet with any of the victims of migrant crime while she's here. … She will not speak to the grieving mothers from whom she has stolen the brightest light in their life.”

Alexis Nungaray — whose 12-year-old daughter, Jocelyn, went missing during a walk to a Houston convenience store in June and was later found dead in a creek — blamed Biden-Harris policies for her daughter’s death. Two undocumented migrants from Venezuela have been charged with killing Jocelyn.

“I will forever be a grieving mother, and my son will forever be a grieving brother who will no longer get to grow up with his sister,” Nungaray said. “Kamala Harris has never reached out to me, just even as a human, to give her condolences as a humane person running this country.”

Nungaray said, however, that Harris has attempted to contact her recently.

“I think it's very sad that she can't even just give me an open apology, sincere apology,” Nungaray said. “She's attempted to apologize to me just days before the election. I find it very inconvenient and a convenience for her.”

During an interview with Fox News last week, Harris was asked if she owed Nungaray an apology. The vice president said she was sorry for Nungaray’s loss and then shifted to attacking Trump for his role in derailing a bipartisan border bill earlier this year.

After listing other violent crimes allegedly committed by undocumented immigrants, Trump vowed, if reelected, to “end this migrant invasion and we will deport every last criminal alien targeting our daughters and our children, families, other people's families.”

The Harris campaign sent an email to reporters before Trump’s remarks saying the former president needs to explain why he urged Republicans in Congress to reject “the toughest, fairest border bill in American history for his own political gain” and why Trump did not make Mexico pay for “his vanity project border wall,” as he promised when running in 2016.

Trump repeated some of his favorite lines of attack that included misinformation about immigration. He claimed again that Harris was the “border czar” and placed in charge of the border security. She was never a “border czar,” but rather was assigned by Biden to address the root causes of migration from Central America.

Trump also falsely claimed the Biden-Harris administration has released more than 13,000 “illegal aliens convicted of murder” into the country. The numbers from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement he was referring to actually span decades — including through the Trump administration and other presidencies. Some of those not in ICE’s custody may be detained by a state or local agency. 

The former president also said 325,000 migrant children are missing, suggesting without evidence that many are dead or “sex slaves.” A report in August by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General noted that from October 2018 to September 2023 — a period that included both the Trump and Biden presidencies — more than 291,000 unaccompanied migrant children had not received a notice to appear in court, and 32,000 others got a notice to appear but then failed to show up for immigration court hearings.

Experts say it is a stretch to refer to the children as “lost” or “missing.”  Jonathan Beier, associate director of research and evaluation for the Acacia Center for Justice’s Unaccompanied Children Program, told The Associated Press: “This is not a ‘missing kids’ problem; it’s a ‘missing paperwork’ problem.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.