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The head of the Border Patrol union criticized President Joe Biden for his “self-serving” visit to the southern border, saying any effort to assess the crisis is “too little, too late.”
“Unfortunately, a visit by President Biden three years into his term and after repeatedly stating there is no crisis is too little, too late,” union president Brandon Judd wrote.
Judd has served as Chairman of the National Border Patrol Council since Barack Obama's second term. He accused Biden of failing to tell the truth about doing everything he could to secure the border.
Jude asserts: “If this were the truth, and it was not the case, there would be no point in visiting the border now.” “But even if he puts in place the right policies at this late hour, he will only do so to try to save his presidency.”
The union president also astutely suggested that Biden's effort to finally take action to secure the border is an election stunt, and his administration would return to open border policies if re-elected.
“Biden is going to the border now just to try to save himself,” Judd said.
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The Border Patrol Union mocks Biden
Aside from the head of the Border Patrol union discharging President Biden over his open border policies and calling his visit to the heart of the crisis “self-serving,” the same group posted a scathing, emoji-filled response to a recent Axios report suggesting the narrative of porous borders liar.
The outlet reposted a column from October 2023 that claimed the illegal immigrant crisis at America's open borders was nothing more than a “myth.”
“By using the term ‘open borders,’ conservatives are falsely suggesting that anyone can enter the United States without much hassle,” they claimed in a post on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. “But the southern border is more fortified than ever.”
Axios' claims are easy to refute, and have been done by several actual investigative journalists on the border. The Border Patrol union took a slightly different approach in its response.
It is in the form of 140 laughing while crying emojis.
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Judd criticized Biden over his previous border visit
President Biden made his first visit to the border in more than a year, though it was little more than a thinly veiled kabuki theater as reports showed illegal immigrant camps in El Paso, Texas, had been evacuated ahead of his visit.
CNN reported at the time that Biden “does not appear to have seen or met with migrants, including during a trip to a migrant shelter.”
Judd criticized Biden for deliberately visiting in January of that year knowing that the seasonal tide would show that the huge number of illegal immigrants in the region had declined slightly.
“Border security should never be about politics, it should always be about the safety and security of this great nation and the American people,” Judd says now.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's campaign also criticized Biden for “hunting him down” to the border, where he and Biden will visit on Thursday.
“Biden’s last-minute insincere attempt to chase President Trump to the border will not work,” Carolyn Leavitt, Trump campaign press secretary, wrote in a statement. “Americans know that Biden is single-handedly responsible for the worst immigration crisis in history and the subsequent Biden crisis of immigrant crime that has affected every community in our country.”
Back in 2017, Judd said the decline in illegal immigration in Trump's first year was nothing short of a “miracle.”
It will take Trump and a miracle to fix the crisis again this time.
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