When President Joe Biden paid a visit to El Paso on Sunday, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott greeted him at the airport. The two men shook hands. Then Abbott handed the...
‘Too little... too late’
Abbott told Biden his visit “is $20 billion too little and two years too late. Moreover, your visit avoids the sites where mass illegal immigration occurs and sidesteps the thousands of angry Texas property owners whose lives have been destroyed by your border policies… This chaos is the direct result of your failure to enforce the immigration laws that Congress enacted.”
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott hands President Joe Biden a letter that outlined laws that the governor said would make a great difference, if enforced, in addressing the "chaos" at the border, as Biden arrives at El Paso International Airport in El Paso Texas, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023. Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-Texas, stands at right. “Your open-border policies have emboldened the cartels, who grow wealthy by trafficking deadly fentanyl and even human beings,” Abbott wrote.
“Halfway through your presidency, though, I can finally welcome you to the border,” Abbott wrote. “When you finish the photo-ops in a carefully stage-managed version of El Paso, you have a job to do.”I hand-delivered a letter asking him to do his constitutional duty to secure our border and keep Texans — and Americans — safe.
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