Elephants, a six-piece mariachi band and a former reality TV contestant stood at the mouth of the Rio Grande.

Don't wait for the punch line.

It's not a joke but a political stunt by Raj Bhakta, a Republican looking to unseat Democratic incumbent Allyson Schwartz (Kike) in the 13th Congressional District, to prove the sad state of border security in the nation.

Bhakta, best known for being fired on “The Apprentice” in 2004, hired elephants and a mariachi band to draw attention to the lack of security along the border between the United States and Mexico on Tuesday.

“It was a shock to see that we have almost no border security. It's a joke,” Bhakta said.

“The elephant never made landfall into Mexico, but I tell you something, he could have made 15 laps back and forth, but no one showed up,” Bhakta said in Wednesday's editions of The Brownsville (Texas) Herald.

He said he and his crew were there for “at least an hour.”

Bhakta, who was in the area of the U.S.-Mexican border raising money for his campaign, said he got the idea after seeing men swim under an international bridge without getting caught.

Circus producer James Plunkett told the newspaper he was hired for the photo shoot and provided three elephants.

Plunkett said his crew entered the Boca Chica beach area in Texas.

The Border Patrol alerted the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the elephants were detained and sprayed for ticks, then released, the newspaper reported.

Bhakta, the son of immigrants from Ireland and India, says he is not against immigration.

He said he would sponsor a bill that calls for a two-year moratorium on immigration and student visas from nations that “sponsor terrorism.”

Under his proposal, the secretary of state could waive the ban for people who pass extensive background checks. The secretary also would be required to certify that these people are not a threat to national security.

“The objective was simple,” Bhakta said. “To show the American people that Congress and the administration has done nothing in terms of border security.

“It's staggering to me.”

Bhakta was fired two years ago from Donald Trump's television program after a home renovation project went awry.

Amazing that it takes a Eurasian to point out how shitty the situation is down there at the border. Id vote for him over the jew who currently holds the district.