Republicans and even some Democrats and progresives have been HARD the President’s case to visit the Southern Border….
The intractable border situation lands in every modern day President’s lap….
Congress won’t deal with it…..
Business’s want and need migrant immigration….
Progressive’s want humane Open Borders….
And Republicans steadily beat up American Democratic President’s with the issue, while pushing for an impossibility of a closed and sealed border only open for legal immigration…
Biden has had Trump’s politics of the border dumped in his lap….
Trump a real estate guy only wanted a wall that he could put his name on….
He instituted a “Zero Tolerance Immigration Policy’ that seperated families and was finally thrown out by media attention and the courts….
Biden has Trump’s ‘Titile 42’ program whpsawing him…
Hew has been reported to have been cursing his ass off when he got into office and was briefed on how shitty things are….
Now he’s going to see things….
He DID campiagn for the office, he was the Vice President for eight years before Trump, and he wants another 6 years in the job….
The president is scheduled to visit Mexico City next week for a summit with other North American leaders. The news of Biden’s border visit was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.
Republicans have long insisted that Biden see the border with Mexico firsthand — one of many criticisms they’ve maintained over the administration’s border policy. GOP leaders, including Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), have held press conferences criticizing Biden from the border itself, highlighting what they’ve labeled as an immigration crisis.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre in November called McCarthy’s border visit a “political stunt.”
The Biden administration faced additional scrutiny for its immigration policies last month under the expected expiration of Title 42, a mechanism used by the Biden and Trump administrations to prevent the entry of millions of migrants under Covid-era rules. Critics have argued the federal government is not prepared for the influx of migrants expected when Title 42 is lifted, as authorities will no longer be able to turn migrants away without an asylum hearing.
The Supreme Court ruled in December that Title 42 can stay in place for now, with oral arguments in the case expected in February or March….
Biden to get a firsthand look at US-Mexico border situation
President Joe Biden is heading to the U.S.-Mexico border on Sunday, his first trip there as president after two years of hounding by Republicans who have hammered him as soft on border security while the number of migrants crossing spirals.
Biden is due to spend a few hours in El Paso, Texas, currently the biggest corridor for illegal crossings, due in large part to Nicaraguans fleeing repression, crime and poverty in their country. They are among migrants from four countries who are now subject to quick expulsion under new rules enacted by the Biden administration in the past week that drew strong criticism from immigration advocates.
The president is expected to meet with border officials to discuss migration as well as the increased trafficking of fentanyl and other synthetic opioids, which are driving skyrocketing numbers of overdoses in the U.S.
Biden will visit the El Paso County Migrant Services Center and meet with nonprofits and religious groups that support migrants arriving to the U.S. It is not clear whether Biden will talk to any migrants…..