President Biden took off from Joint Base Andrews aboard Air Force One on Sunday morning for his trip to El Paso, Texas, his first visit to the southern border since taking office two years ago.
Biden, 80, who is claimed to be “all in” on a reelection run in 2024 and is predicted to announce his intentions in a few weeks, has been roundly criticized for his failure to regulate the variety of migrants crossing the border into the US and for repealing quite a lot of programs begun by former President Donald Trump that led to the escalation.
The president’s arrival on the border comes as US Border Patrol agents say they’re “beyond frustrated” with the continuing situation and dismiss his first visit to the region as too little, too late.
Biden is slated to spend a part of Sunday in El Paso, where he’ll get a first-hand take a look at the immigration crisis and meet with local and border patrol officials, before heading to Mexico City where he’ll participate in a summit with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudea and Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
He was accompanied on the flight by Homeland Security Secretary Alejando Mayorkas and Democratic Reps. Henry Cuellar, Veronica Escobar and Vicente Gonzalez of Texas and quite a lot of other administration officials, in keeping with the White House.
“The president’s very much looking forward to seeing for himself firsthand what the border security situation looks like,” said John Kirby, White House national security spokesman, who is an element of the contingent. “That is something that he desired to see for himself.”
There have been greater than 2.4 million migrants crossing the nearly 2,000-mile length of the southern border with Mexico in fiscal yr 2022, in keeping with US Customs and Border Protection statistics released in October.
“We’re beyond frustrated that it’s taken him two years,” National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd told Fox News Digital last week. “We’re beyond frustrated that he allowed this issue to get as bad because it is, He’s not coming to the border of his own accord. He would have done that a protracted, very long time ago.”
President Biden took off from Joint Base Andrews aboard Air Force One on Sunday morning for his trip to El Paso, Texas, his first visit to the southern border since taking office two years ago.
Biden, 80, who is claimed to be “all in” on a reelection run in 2024 and is predicted to announce his intentions in a few weeks, has been roundly criticized for his failure to regulate the variety of migrants crossing the border into the US and for repealing quite a lot of programs begun by former President Donald Trump that led to the escalation.
The president’s arrival on the border comes as US Border Patrol agents say they’re “beyond frustrated” with the continuing situation and dismiss his first visit to the region as too little, too late.
Biden is slated to spend a part of Sunday in El Paso, where he’ll get a first-hand take a look at the immigration crisis and meet with local and border patrol officials, before heading to Mexico City where he’ll participate in a summit with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudea and Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
He was accompanied on the flight by Homeland Security Secretary Alejando Mayorkas and Democratic Reps. Henry Cuellar, Veronica Escobar and Vicente Gonzalez of Texas and quite a lot of other administration officials, in keeping with the White House.
“The president’s very much looking forward to seeing for himself firsthand what the border security situation looks like,” said John Kirby, White House national security spokesman, who is an element of the contingent. “That is something that he desired to see for himself.”
There have been greater than 2.4 million migrants crossing the nearly 2,000-mile length of the southern border with Mexico in fiscal yr 2022, in keeping with US Customs and Border Protection statistics released in October.
“We’re beyond frustrated that it’s taken him two years,” National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd told Fox News Digital last week. “We’re beyond frustrated that he allowed this issue to get as bad because it is, He’s not coming to the border of his own accord. He would have done that a protracted, very long time ago.”
