Republicans have used record numbers of illegal arrivals to bludgeon the Biden administration during the past two years.īut any slight hopes that they might welcome the president's attention to the issue quickly evaporated as Abbot could be seen on the asphalt handing a letter to the president. Biden's plan will only entice MORE illegal crossings.'īiden touched down in the border city around midday in what officials hoped was a chance to underscore his commitment to tackling illegal immigration. 'He has no plans to enforce federal immigration laws. 'President Biden's border visit today is to a sanitized version of El Paso,' he tweeted, referencing the way law enforcement agents have cleared out migrant camps in the city. Greg Abbott also blasted Biden's visit - his first to the border as president - saying that the city had been cleaned up for his trip. The Republican governor of Texas delivered a frosty welcome to Biden in El Paso on Sunday, accusing him of opening the southern border to illegal immigrants and handing him a letter demanding that he take more action to tackle the crisis. It was the primary temple of the Mexica people in Tenochtitlan, and is the site of an ongoing architectural dig. Then the trio will tour the Templo Mayor in the center of the city. Sophie Grégoire Trudeau at the Palacio Nacional in Mexico City. On Tuesday, she meets with spouses of the two presidents, Dr. Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller for a Fandango por la Lectura at the Palacio Nacional in Mexico City. She is set to hold a 'conversation on women's empowerment, meet local students for a Tochito NFL flag football event, and join Dr. The summit's official name is the North American Leaders Summit.įirst Lady Jill Biden is joining her husband on the trip, with plans to visit cultural sites. James Comer (R-Ky.), who is set to chair the powerful Oversight Committee, told. But will he take the advice of all the frontline workers on the border? That's yet to be determined,' Rep. 'We're glad he's come to the border after over two years of being president. Mexico, which is itself contending with an onslaught of immigration from other countries, has announced its own policy to accept the same 30,000 figure.īiden has yet to win over critics with his quick trip to the border, although going may be a start. ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar, the former Interior Secretary and by Lopez Obrador, who joined Biden in 'the Beast,' his presidential limo, for the ride to his hotel.īiden arrived days after pitching his new immigration plan, which includes accepting 30,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela each month, in an effort to lower the incentives for immigration claims between entry points at the border. 'I don't think that this is a sign that there's going to be closer cooperation, bilateral collaboration, if you will, between the United States and Mexico,' he told the AP.īiden got treated to a red carpet arrival, complete with military honor guard and a trumpeter at Felipe Angeles International Airport, the new airport in Mexico City.
It included 11 military and law enforcement dead along with 19 suspected gunman for the Sinaloa cartel amid a fierce gun battle. He had been released from custody in 2019.īut the explosive operation – which left at least 30 dead as cartel members shot up the town of Culiacan where Ovidio Guzman was apprehended – also revealed the extend of the cartel's control in the region.
Mexican authorities sent their own signal of commitment to confronting the drug scourge with the arrest days ago of the son Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquín ' El Chapo' Guzmán. The administration has signaled that the burgeoning fentanyl trade, with the deadly synthetic opiate and other drugs pouring over the border, will garner attention here. The president will be on the ground for just two days' time, but the challenges he and Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will try to tackle have bedeviled leaders going back decades. Having finally checked the box of a border visit off his list after repeated demands of his rivals, Joe Biden landed south of the border, where he will confront vexing problems of the drug trade and illegal immigration at the 'Three Amigos' summit.
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