CHICAGO—Vivek Ramaswamy blasted Vice President Kamala Harris’ record on illegal immigration on the final day of the Democratic National Convention, calling on her to apologize to the family members of victims of migrant crimes.

Speaking at a press conference on behalf of the Trump campaign, Ramaswamy tore into the Biden-Harris administration’s record on the border, specifically highlighting the murder of American citizens by illegal aliens.

The former Republican presidential primary contender challenged Harris to “have a spine and to apologize to the family members of Laken Riley” and to the families of other American citizens who’ve been killed by illegal aliens when she gives her acceptance speech Thursday night.

“Even more importantly, tell the rest of us what policies you’re actually going to adopt to make sure something like that never happens again in this country,” Ramaswamy went on to say.

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Ramaswamy’s comments come as former president Donald Trump prepares to visit the southern border in Arizona. Law enforcement in the state are currently carrying out a manhunt for a suspect who threatened to kill Trump during his trip.

During Thursday’s press conference, Ramaswamy also discussed the Biden-Harris administration’s decision to end DNA testing on the southern border, which was used under Trump to ensure that children brought to the border were not being smuggled by human traffickers or cartel members.

“If you actually cared about reuniting families you would at least genetically test, using the toolkit of modern science,” Ramaswamy said. “The truth of the matter though is that the cartels, many of whom are responsible for the human trafficking and child trafficking into the country, don’t want that reunification.”

“Our own policy regime in this country, advanced by Democrats, favors exactly what the cartel business model calls for, which is allowing those children to be trafficked rather than reunited,” Ramaswamy told The Daily Wire.

As the Biden administration’s “Border Czar,” Harris oversaw 10 million border crossings, including an estimated 1.7 million illegal immigrant “got-aways.” She has suggested abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement.