Texas Republican slams POTUS Biden for border invite snub: 'I'm not this crazy extremist'
Reps. Tony Gonzales and Monica De La Cruz told the Washington Examiner that they had not been asked or allowed to join Biden on his first trip to the southern border Sunday afternoon.
"Seven months ago, I hosted the president in Uvalde, and I asked him to visit on the border. He looked me in the eye, and he said, 'Tony, yes,'" Gonzales told CBS News Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan Sunday about a conversation during Biden's visit following the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School."Seven months later, when I tried to be part of this El Paso visit ...
— Face The Nation January 8, 2023 De La Cruz, who won her first term in Congress two months ago, said she urged Biden in December to visit the border but that even though he was doing so now, his immigration policies were incoherent.
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