Both Joe Biden and Donald Trump will travel to the border with Mexico in Texas on Thursday, at a time when immigration is proving to be a hot campaign issue for these two likely rivals in the November presidential election.
“Urgent need to adopt” a text on immigration
The Democratic president, who is pressing Republican parliamentarians to ratify an immigration law, will travel to Brownsville to meet police and local officials, the White House announced Monday. “He will discuss the urgent need to adopt” a text on immigration prepared by senators from both sides, “which constitutes the most severe and fair set of reforms to secure the border in decades,” assured an official. from the White House to the press.
Joe Biden will “reiterate his call to Republicans in Congress to stop playing politics and provide the necessary funds” for more border controls, added this official.
“Biden will never be able to control the situation”
Donald Trump will go to Eagle Pass, nearly 500 km from Brownsville. The ex-president adopts virulent rhetoric against migrants and the government, refusing any concession to the latter. “Cruel gangs and gang members are pouring into our country from South America and around the world…poured into our good old America by the tens of thousands,” the Republican said on social media, adding: “Biden will never be able to control the situation.”
A spokesperson for Donald Trump said that the fact that “Biden followed us to the border on the same day shows us what a big deal this is for him.” The Republican camp accuses Joe Biden and his administration of worsening the flow of migrants through their asylum policies. The White House assures that the Republican Party is deliberately sabotaging any attempt at compromise on the issue.
In recent weeks, the state of Texas has engaged in a real standoff with the administration of Joe Biden, its Republican governor Greg Abbott, a big supporter of Donald Trump, accusing the government of allowing an “invasion” of migrants illegal at the southern border of the country. Border control is a federal jurisdiction in the United States, but Texas has increased measures aimed at countering immigration, with several legal disputes underway on this subject.