March 25, 2011 | 12:04 pm

California Atty. Gen. Kamala D. Harris vowed to implement a crackdown on crime along the U.S.-Mexico border in a meeting with law enforcement officers in a desert region where officials have struggled for years to plug one of the biggest drug pipelines into the country.

Harris, in her first visit to the border since becoming California’s top law enforcement official, said on Thursday that she would increase the number of state agents working with the Imperial County Narcotics Task Force. The multi-agency force has put together some of the biggest cases against Mexican organized crime groups, but the county remains a major trafficking corridor, officials said.

“What happens here has impact and effect throughout the state of California,â€