Nikki Haley, GOP candidate for the White House, claims border crisis is solely ... trends now

During a trip along the southern Texas border, Nikki Haley insisted that Joe Biden is the sole person to blame for the migration crisis – and said she has given up on Vice President Kamala Harris ever visiting the border.

The Republican presidential hopeful and former ambassador told DailyMail.com on Monday that it's up to Biden to fire Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and replace him with someone that can do the job more effectively.

Joining Haley on her five-stop trip at the southern border was Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas), representing the greater San Antonio area which shares a border with Mexico. He has issued an open invitation to all presidential candidates to tour the region.

'We have one president, and his job is to keep Americans safe,' Haley told DailyMail.com at the final stop of her trip in Eagle Pass, Texas. 'And all we know is that he's refusing to look at the border situation because he hopes it goes away.'

'So now he's got Mayorkas – he's been given the trouble of dealing with this, and he's refused to call it a crisis. So how do the American people have any confidence in a president who refuses to see a border problem and a secretary who refuses to see it as a crisis?' Haley added.

Haley made a few stops in Texas, including Del Rio and Eagle Pass, where she met with Border Patrol agents, National Guard soldiers, ranchers, and residents who live in fear daily.

She also went to a shoe factory on the U.S. side of the border where many legal immigrants work.

Now, she says it's time for Biden to see the 'real' border towns after finally making his first trip to the border, but not surveying some of the realities the communities are facing from the crisis.

'You look at these families, the number one thing that they said is, 'People need to not expect us just to live like this,' Haley said.