Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) will unveil his plan to "crush the cartels" during his first trip to the southern border as a 2024 Republican presidential candidate Friday.

Scott's campaign announced Wednesday that the two-term senator will speak about his strategy to take down the transnational criminal organizations that make billions of dollars annually by smuggling people and drugs into the United States.

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"If you don't control your back door at your house, it's not your house. If you don't control your southern border, it might not be our country," Scott said in a statement. "That's why on my first day as commander-in-chief, the strongest nation on Earth will stop retreating from our own southern border."

Scott will visit southwestern Arizona's Yuma, a city of 90,000 residents about a two-and-a-half-hour drive from Phoenix.

The candidate will host a round table discussion with local leaders and law enforcement.

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Yuma has been a hotbed for human smuggling over the past several years and has a high rate of illegal immigrant apprehensions.

The Biden administration this year began to fill in several gaps between border wall projects following pressure from Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) and former Gov. Doug Ducey (R-AZ).