President Trump has just touched down in Texas ahead of his visit to the U.S.-Mexico border.
Outside Del Rio International Airport, Trump told reporters, “Nice weather, beautiful day. But a very dangerous border. We’re going to take care of it, thank you.”
He will be delivering remarks in Eagle Pass, TX later this afternoon.
Watch here:
🚨 HAPPENING NOW: Donald Trump arrives at the southern border in Texas:
"We're going to take care of it!"pic.twitter.com/S2XShqV1Qp
— Proud Elephant 🇺🇸🦅 (@ProudElephantUS) February 29, 2024
CNN reported on Trump’s arrival in Texas:
Former President Donald touched down at Del Rio International Airport and briefly addressed cameras on the tarmac.
“Nice weather, beautiful day. But a very dangerous border. We’re going to take care of it, thank you,” Trump said.
Trump is expected to deliver a speech later this afternoon on border security and illegal immigration near the US-Mexico border.
Meanwhile, a huge Pro-Trump caravan is geared up to greet with Biden upon arrival in Texas:
Wow, A Massive Pro-Trump car caravan showed up to protest Biden at his border visit. 🥳🥳🥳
Texas is Trump country! pic.twitter.com/QjlkH9rUqy
— Freedom 🇺🇸🦅 (@PU28453638) February 29, 2024
Joe Biden will be making his second ever trip to the border since he entered the White House today.
President Trump previously commented that it “took me announcing that I’m going down to the border” to “get him off his ass.”
Per NBC News:
Both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are scheduled to visit the southern border Thursday in what’s expected to be a dramatic split-screen moment as the 2024 presidential campaign ramps up over an issue that has confounded administrations of both parties for decades: immigration.
It’s Biden’s second trip to the border since he took office. His first was to El Paso in January 2023. This time, he’s set to visit Brownsville, a border town in the Rio Grande Valley that has long felt the impacts of migration up close.
“He wanted to show that it was important for him to go down there, to hear from Border Patrol agents, to hear from first responders,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said at a briefing Wednesday. Biden will also deliver remarks to urge congressional Republicans to pass more border security funding, a White House official said.
Still, critics of the administration point out that Biden is visiting Brownsville at a time when the direst consequences of the migrant influx have shifted elsewhere. According to Customs and Border Protection, the federal agency that includes the Border Patrol, many more immigrants are now crossing at other parts of the border, such as Arizona and Eagle Pass, Texas.
Eagle Pass is where Trump is expected to visit. He has visited the border many times before — and he announced his trip before the White House did. Biden said this week that he’d been planning to go but that he didn’t know “his good friend” would be there the same day. Two senior administration officials said the timing of the trip was meant to maximize its political impact a week before the State of the Union address. One of the officials said “we welcome the split screen” with Trump.
Trump joked of Biden on a radio show this week: “Well, we found out how to get him off his ass. It took me announcing that I’m going down to the border.”
On Wednesday, the White House insisted Biden’s trip had already been planned.
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