President Trump visited the border in Arizona.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times
WASHINGTON DC (WSAU) – Former President Trump and President Biden will both be visiting the U.S. southern border this week to show voters that they have a plan to solve the growing humanitarian crisis.
According to the New York Post, the visits by Biden and Trump will come only days after Venezuelan illegal immigrant Jose Antonio Ibarra was apprehended for the alleged murder of Augusta University junior Laken Riley.
President Biden “will travel to Brownsville, Texas, to meet with US Border Patrol agents, law enforcement, and local leaders,” a White House official said in a statement, and “he will discuss the urgent need to pass the Senate bipartisan border security agreement, the toughest and fairest set of reforms to secure the border in decades.”
Fox News’s border correspondent Bill Melugin stated on X that the Brownsville/Rio Grande Valley has been slow for months, with just 200–400 migrants crossing into the U.S. per day. Meanwhile, the San Diego/Tucson sector has been averaging 1,000 to 2,000 illegal crossings per day.
Former President Trump will be visiting and speaking 300 miles away from Brownsville at Eagles Pass, Texas, which has been the site of the state of Texas’s legal battle with the Biden Administration over installing razor wire near the Rio Grande River, according to CNN. Texas released plans earlier this month to build a military department base camp near Eagle Pass that is expected to house around 1,800 National Guard troops.
Trump addressed Laken Riley’s murder in a Monday morning post on Truth Social saying, “The horrible murder of 22-year-old Laken Riley at the University of Georgia should have NEVER happened! The monster who took her life illegally entered our Country in 2022…and then was released AGAIN by Radical Democrats in New York after injuring a CHILD!! When I am your President, we will immediately Seal the Border, Stop the Invasion, and on Day One, we will begin the largest deportation operation of illegal CRIMINALS in American History! May God Bless Laken Riley and her family!!! Our prayers are with you!”
According to a recent Gallup poll conducted last month, when Americans were asked to name the most significant issue facing the US, immigration came up as the second most popular response (20%), followed by poor national leadership (21%), inflation, and high living expenses (13%).
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