Washington — President Biden is about to go to the southern border on Thursday. But his will not be the one go to to the area— former President Donald Trump will even make an look in a distinct Texas border city, in a split-screen evident of the political second.
Mr. Biden is visiting Brownsville, Texas, the place he is set to satisfy with border patrol brokers, legislation enforcement officers and native leaders, the White House stated. He’ll ship remarks to “spotlight the necessity for Congress to move the bipartisan border safety settlement” negotiated within the Senate that Republicans rejected earlier this month when Trump intervened.
Meanwhile, the previous president and the frontrunner for the Republican nomination is about to look in Eagle Pass, Texas, somewhat greater than 300 miles from the president. Trump is predicted to ship remarks Thursday afternoon, whereas his marketing campaign is lambasting Mr. Biden’s go to as a “last-minute, insincere try to chase” him to the border.
But Mr. Biden informed reporters that he is been planning the go to for Thursday, including that “what I did not know is my good pal is outwardly going” on the identical day.
The border has develop into a political flashpoint in recent months amid document ranges of migrant arrivals. Republicans have railed in opposition to the Biden administration for its dealing with of the southern border. In a uncommon transfer earlier this month, House Republicans voted to question Mr. Biden’s chief border official, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. And the GOP has repeatedly known as on Mr. Biden to take government motion on immigration.
Democrats have tried to go on offense on the immigration problem after Republicans rejected the long-sought border deal that will have marked the primary complete border safety coverage reform in Congress in many years. Congressional Democrats and the White House have pointed to the flip flopping, accusing Republicans of looking for to make use of the border as political fodder slightly than looking for to deal with the difficulty.
Mr. Biden’s marketing campaign, in the meantime, has known as out Trump for “blocking border safety.”
The go to comes forward of Mr. Biden’s March 7 State of the Union deal with, and because the White House has been weighing whether or not to severely prohibit access to the U.S. asylum system, sources beforehand informed CBS News. For Mr. Biden, the go to marks his first to the southern border since a visit to El Paso in January 2023.
“He wished to indicate that it was vital for him to go down there to listen to from Border Patrol brokers, to listen to from first responders on what is going on on on the bottom,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre informed reporters on Wednesday. “And he additionally needs to put out the work that he has been capable of do with senators in a bipartisan means.”
