Biden Vs Trump: Both Visiting The Border This Thursday

Does Biden suddenl have a heart for the people? He feels deeply concerned with their welfare as they are hit with a crimewave of illegal immigrants?

Or is this just a photo-op for him as he visits a city that’s 300 miles away from the problem location, Eagle Pass, so it’s not heavily affected by the invasion?

Well, this Thursday Joe Biden and President Trump are visiting the Southern Border and we’re going to hear what both of them have to say on this issue that weighs on the hearts of many Americans.

I can’t wait to hear Biden’s speech. It’ll be a perfect opportunity to do a side-by-side comparision with him and Trump on this topic, and you know it’s going to another brutal hit for Biden’s Administration.

Why does Biden even bother to go down there?

I have a feeling that his visit is “too little, too late” for a lot of folks down in Texas.

BREAKING: Border Patrol Union’s statement today:

“Joe Biden is directly responsible for the deaths of innocent Americans at the hands of illegal aliens.

Period.”

— Leading Report (@LeadingReport) February 26, 2024

NBC News reports:

As Biden prepares for his Thursday visit to Brownsville — some 300 miles southeast of Eagle Pass, where former President Donald Trump plans to be on the same day — Sanchez, Burkhart and Piña are enmeshed in a variety of issues they say are more directly impacting their lives than immigration.

But as much as Brownsville residents hope the nation will see that their city is more than what is often depicted in media, Biden plans to use the visit to drive the message that Republicans, at Trump’s urging, killed a bipartisan bill that would have brought some resources to the area for immigration enforcement, tightened asylum eligibility and given him authority to “shut down the border.” Trump will be delivering a very different message, steering it away from the congressional impasse and putting the blame of the immigration overflow on the Biden administration’s immigration policies.

In this part of the country, there’s much more perception of immigration as a mixed bag. Here there are families who may be a generation removed from immigration to the U.S. while also having a family member who is in the Border Patrol. People move back-and-forth each day to attend school in the U.S. or see a dentist in Matamoros, just across the border. They also understand there is danger in some of the people and goods — such as guns and drugs — that head in either direction.

“This has been happening for quite some time,” said Sanchez, a mother of two works in IT and was born and raised in Brownsville. “It always seem to be in the back burner until it’s an election year.”

Sanchez said she’s been spending most of her time trying to get officials’ attention to do something about the dust and silica blowing from the mining site into her neighborhood. She worries of what it’s doing to her health and her children’s.

But she also is concerned about her children’s future as more and more migrants arrive and law enforcement is unable to fully process them, she said.

These days, migration is in a lull in the Customs and Border Protection’s Rio Grande Valley sector, which includes Brownsville. Border Patrol encounters were down 23% last month over January 2023.

Biden has been under fire for much of his administration amid record numbers of border crossings since he lifted a Covid-era border shutdown implemented by Trump. However, data shows that illegal crossings increased as Trump shut off legal pathways to enter.

Joe Biden’s trip to the border is nothing more than a photo-op—if he wanted he could fix the border right now. pic.twitter.com/mSB6sruO3f

— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) February 27, 2024

MSN adds:

Joe Biden and Donald Trump will pay dueling visits to the US-Mexico border Thursday as they try to win over voters on one of the most divisive issues of November’s presidential election.

The showdown in Texas comes as record numbers of migrant crossings into the United States create a major threat to Biden’s chances of preventing a Trump comeback.

Democrat Biden will meet border patrol officers and law enforcement agents in Bronwnsville, Texas, while Republican Trump heads to Eagle Pass, about 300 miles (480 kilometers) to the west.

Biden has sought to defuse the politically toxic issue by blaming Republicans in Congress for failing to back his reforms to America’s broken immigration system.

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said that in Brownsville Biden would deliver remarks to call highlight the need for Republicans to “get that done.”

In a statement, the White House said he would tell them to “stop playing politics and to provide the funding needed for additional US Border Patrol agents, more asylum officers, fentanyl detection technology and more.”

But for Trump a hard anti-immigration stance has been central to his political identity for years, and he has pledged the biggest ever US deportation program if he returns to the White House.

“No country can sustain what is happening to our country,” the former president told the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington earlier this month.

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Trump added that migrants were “killing our people, they’re killing our country” — echoing the increasingly far-right rhetoric that saw him describe migrants last year as “poisoning the blood” of the United States.

The split-screen moment less than eight months before Americans go to the polls highlights the high-stakes of the border issue as Biden, 81, and Trump, 77, head for a rematch.

President Biden’s visit to the southern border is nothing more than an election year stunt.

The American people know what he is doing. pic.twitter.com/XmCOX9HutF

— Sen. Marsha Blackburn (@MarshaBlackburn) February 29, 2024

But why would Biden close the border?

All his supporters are coming into America through there.

Here’s a few of Joe’s supporter right here.

They just love him:

Why would Joe Biden want to close the border when the only people who are going to vote for him are coming across it. If they can walk into the interior illegally and get a $5000 cash bonus and a prepaid debit card, you better believe they’re gonna be able to vote in 2024.… pic.twitter.com/Jfrnecd8RA

— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) February 27, 2024

With all those flooding in, we’re not even mentioning those minors that come in and disappear…

Thousands of unaccompanied minors who crossed the border are missing.

These children were placed by the Biden Administration into sponsor homes.

Now nobody knows where they are.

Culpeper is a small town near D.C with a population of just 20k. 21 of them went
missing just in… pic.twitter.com/kxQvoai5a0

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) February 28, 2024

Here’s a great reminder:

Violating the Constitution 👇👇pic.twitter.com/duu9rLtroV

— Donna Marie (@sabback) February 27, 2024