(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) President Joe Biden will be making a visit to Uvalde, Texas, in the aftermath of the Ross Elementary School shooting, making this the closest he has been to the border in the entirety of his presidency.
While it is good and correct for the president to visit Uvalde, his visit to Texas has spurred questions about whether or not he will make a stop at the southern border as well, The Federalist reported.
Uvalde is an hour’s drive from frequented illegal immigration paths, such as Eagle Pass and Del Rio.
Biden has not visited the border in more than a decade, and in the aftermath of his repealing of Trump-era policies that bolstered border security, many are calling for the current president to physically address the crisis.
The sitting administration has welcomed illegal immigrants explicitly, but after opening the border, has largely ignored the flood of people coming into the United States.
Biden’s team has placed an unofficial gag order on border-related data being gathered from federal officials. However, recent news coverage suggests that deaths related to heat exposure, starvation and drowning are becoming more frequent.
Many attempted border crossers are also killed by feuding Mexican cartels and drug-related violence. In 2021, at least 650 migrants died while attempting to cross into the United States.
Specifically in Del Rio, there was a record-breaking 66 deaths in 2021, almost double the number of deaths from the previous year.
Biden ignoring the border crisis is not an isolated event. The president has rushed to sites of tragedies that are politically expedient, such as Buffalo, New York, but continues to ignore places like Waukesha, Wisconsin, and the border.
When asked about this inconsistency, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre simply said “he’s visited many communities.”
Peter Doocy asks why Joe Biden is going to visit Buffalo, NY but he didn’t visit Waukesha after a deadly terror attack by a racist black supremacist:
“I mean, he’s visited many communities, um, Buffalo. you know? He’s able to go tomorrow”pic.twitter.com/D2Npj7EOeZ
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) May 16, 2022
