Joe Biden and Donald Trump will face off on the migrant issue today, as both visit the Texas-Mexico border just hours and a few hundred miles apart. The president who was the first to announce last Monday's visit to Brownsville in the Rio Grande Valley, an area that sees a large number of inbound travelers, was the president.
“He wants to make sure his message gets through to Americans,” spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre said, explaining that Biden would make an appeal from the border to Congress to approve the bipartisan text already negotiated in the Senate for tougher measures on accesses and more funding for federal agencies deployed to the border. The Republicans are blocking this text, which contains many of the measures they demand, in response to the instructions of Donald Trump, who under no circumstances wants Biden to be tougher or stricter on the immigration issue before the elections.
And to reiterate the concept, as soon as news of Biden's mission spread, sources from his campaign told the media that the former president will also be in Texas tomorrow, in Eagle Pass, about 300 miles (500 kilometers) from Brownsville.
Eagle Pass was not chosen by chance, as that crossing has been at the center of a conflict for weeks between the federal government and Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who ordered the National Guard to erect barbed wire barriers to protect Texas from the threat. an invasion.” An action that continues to be carried out with the blessing of Trump, who has called on other Republican governors to send “reinforcements,” even as the Supreme Court has reaffirmed that managing border security is a matter for federal authorities.
Biden simultaneously joked about Trump's visit, saying that when he arranged his visit, he didn't know “my good friend was apparently coming too.” Less ironic was the reaction of the Trump campaign, which said that Biden's “disingenuous last-minute visit to go after Trump on the border issue will have no results” because, in the opinion of Trumpians, the current occupant of the White House is responsible for it would be “the worst migration crisis in history”
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