A entire two years after taking office, President Joe Biden will finally make a flying visit to the permeable U.S.-Mexico border on Sunday.
Biden will spend a few hours in El Paso, Texas, which is now the main route for unauthorized border crossings.
The president’s brief trip is timed to coincide with an international gathering in Mexico City, where Biden will have meetings with Justin Trudeau, the prime minister of Canada, and Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the president of Mexico.
By dodging questions and passing the buck to Vice President Kamala Harris and his pro-immigration, Cuban-born Homeland Security chief Alejandro Mayorkas, Biden has previously distanced himself from his border deluge.
According to Breitbart News, the visit follows years of negligence by the Biden administration, which caused a surge in unauthorized border crossings.
“More than 3.5 million economic migrants have crossed the southern border since Biden took office in January 2021, including more than a million “gotaways” who managed to sneak past the few remaining border guards.”
“At least 100 million Americans have seen their earnings decrease and their rent increase as a result of the inflow, which is 14 times greater than the number permitted into the country during President Donald Trump’s final year in office.”
On Sunday, Biden is anticipated to meet with border guards to talk about immigration and the rising trafficking of synthetic opioids like fentanyl that are to blame for the U.S.’s alarmingly high overdose rates.
Biden will visit the El Paso County Migrant Services Center and speak with charitable organizations and faith-based organizations that assist immigrants as they enter the country. According to the AP story, it is unclear whether Biden will speak to any migrants.
Prior to Biden’s departure, Texas Republican John Cornyn provided some words of wisdom. This was just days after reports surfaced that a human smuggler shot an El Paso Border Patrol agent during a routine traffic check.
“In addition to local officials and law enforcement, landowners, nonprofit organizations, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers and agents, and people who make their living in border communities on the front lines of his crisis,” Cornyn said, “He must take the time to learn from some of the experts I rely on most.”
Biden will travel south from El Paso to Mexico City, where he will meet with the presidents of Mexico and Canada on Monday and Tuesday for a summit of North American leaders.
One of the topics on the agenda is immigration.
