For the first time since taking office, President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden plan to be in fairly close proximity to the U.S. southern border with Mexico on Sunday.
The stated purpose of the trip is to console the grieving families and members of the Uvalde, Texas, community, where a mass shooting took place at an elementary school Tuesday that left 19 students and two teachers dead.
That is certainly a worthy reason for the Bidens to travel there, with so many reeling in unimaginable pain.
However, it should be noted that Uvalde is in U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Del Rio Sector.
In fact, the south Texas city is about an hour’s drive, and obviously much less by helicopter, to the border towns of Del Rio and Eagle Pass, right in the epicenter of the current border migrant crisis his policies created.
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There’s no excuse for the president, who apparently has never visited the border during his half-century in federal office, not to go.
BREAKING: For the third day in a row, another massive group of approximately 150 has crossed illegally at this same spot on private property here in Eagle Pass, TX. This has happened every day since Wednesday during the late morning hours. Cubans, Venezuelans, Colombians @FoxNews pic.twitter.com/WpMlioa33u
— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) May 13, 2022
Last fall, The Washington Post dug up a brief drive-by view of the border Biden saw while traveling to a 2008 campaign event in southern New Mexico. Come on, man!
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