Trump, Biden to make dueling trips to southern border
by Brett Samuels - 02/26/24 10:35 AM ET
President Biden and former President Trump will both travel to the southern border on Thursday, underscoring how immigration and border security is set to play a key role in November’s elections.
Biden will visit Brownsville, Texas, as he presses Congress for action to address the flow of migrants into the United States and weighs executive action of his own to deal with the issue.
The president will meet with border patrol agents and local leaders and call on congressional Republicans to take up a bipartisan border security agreement put forward by the Senate, a White House official said.
The trip will coincide with plans for Trump, the likely GOP nominee in November, to make remarks at the border.
The record-setting number of apprehensions at the southern border in recent months has been a political liability for Biden, with Republicans blaming the White House for what it views as an immigration crisis.
Trump has hammered Biden over immigration and the border for months and has pledged to carry out a massive deportation operation if he is reelected.
The White House has stressed repeatedly that Biden sent an immigration proposal to lawmakers on his first day in office, and the president has voiced frustration that Congress has failed to take up a recent bipartisan proposal on border security.
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