In the first reactions on President Joe Biden’s visit to the southern border Suffering from the problem of the flow of immigrants and drugs, Republican Speaker of the US House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy said on his Twitter account on Monday: “Biden is making his first border visit in his life to bring a photo, as she pressed for amnesty for the millions of immigrants who have illegally crossed the border into the United States.
Biden is making the first border visit of his life — a photo shoot — as he pushes for amnesty for millions of immigrants who have entered the United States illegally.
Republicans will hold him and Mayorkas accountable for creating the most dangerous border crisis in American history.
— Kevin McCarthy (@SpeakerMcCarthy) January 8, 2023
He continued, “Republicans will hold him and his secretary of the interior in the House of Representatives accountable for creating the most dangerous border crisis in American history.”
US President Joe Biden arrived on Sunday. at the US-Mexico border for the first time since he took office Visit El Paso, the transit point in Texas that is at the center of controversy over illegal immigration and drug trafficking.
President Biden is greeted by Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador upon his arrival
The US president, accused by Republican opposition of turning a blind eye to the historic influx of immigrants seeking to enter the US illegally, will meet border officials and law enforcement officials there. He was greeted as he stepped off the plane by conservative Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who accuses the Democratic president of turning the border into an immigration corridor.
In El Paso, Biden is discussing “border control operations” with local officials, before traveling to the Mexican capital to hold a summit with his Mexican counterpart Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, with whom he will participate in a joint tripartite summit on Tuesday to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
On Saturday, the president tweeted about his trip, citing “the need to expand legal pathways for organized immigration.” “We can do all this while reducing illegal immigration,” he said.
Accompanying the US president to the border is US Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorcas, who called for a “regional solution” to the immigration crisis in an interview with ABC on Sunday.
On Thursday, the White House announced steps to try to lighten the burden at the border, where more than 230,000 people were arrested in November.
Up to 30,000 immigrants a month from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela will be admitted to the United States, but they will have to arrive by plane in order not to increase the workload of border guards on the ground.
In return, according to the White House, those who cross the border illegally would be sent back more easily.
