arriving at the country’s borders under the Biden administration, specifically to come across the U.S.-Mexico border illegally and risk getting caught.
Joe Biden went to speak to the intelligence community at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence yesterday. He spoke before about 120 employees and senior officials, according to Stars and Stripes.
The administration of President Joe Biden continues to grapple with a growing tide of migrant families arriving at the US-Mexico border, with Border Patrol apprehending more than 50,000 migrant families in June, up from 40,815 in May, according to US Customs and Border Protection data.
The Trump-Abbott tour to the southern border may pave the way for a GOP win in the 2022 midterms, American observers say, stressing that the border crisis and influx of migrants are likely to become hot button topics in the upcoming elections.
President Trump and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) recently took aim at the Biden administration for causing the crisis at the southern border. While visiting Texas on Wednesday, the 45th president received a border security briefing and held a roundtable before heading to the wall to get a first hand look at the situation.
It’s almost like Democrats want the situation at the southern border to get worse. Amid a migrant crisis in which hundreds of thousands of immigrants have surged the border, House Democrats wish to slash Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) budget by almost one billion dollars.
Former President Donald Trump announced that he’s accepted an invitation from Texas Governor Greg Abbott to visit the southern border later this month.