Border Patrol Union slams Biden border visit as ‘too little, too late’ just to ‘strive to save himself’

The Border Patrol Union on Monday ridiculed President Biden’s deliberate visit to the border this week as a cynical ploy to save his presidency on the expense of Americans’ security. 

In a press release obtained by Fox News Digital, the union stated Biden’s deliberate border visit, three years into his time period, “after repeatedly stating there is no crisis is too little, too late.” 

The union argued that “there would be no point in visiting the border now” if the president’s assertions that he has accomplished all the pieces he can to safe the border have been true. 

Migrants wait to be processed by the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol after they crossed the Rio Grande and entered the U.S. from Mexico, Oct. 19, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

“But even if he were to put the proper policies in place at this late hour, he’d be doing it only to try to save his Presidency. And self-serving actions when time is winding down should always give Americans pause. Common sense dictates that as a lame duck, he’d revert to his open border policies if re-elected,” the union stated. 

“Biden is going to the border now solely to try to save himself. Border security should never be about politics, it should always be about the safety and security of this great nation and the American people.”

Fox News Digital has reached out to the White House for a response. 

The union’s assertion comes as President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will make dueling journeys to the U.S-Mexico border this week, as each candidates strive to flip the nation’s damaged immigration system to their political benefit in an anticipated marketing campaign rematch this 12 months.

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Biden will journey to Brownsville, Texas, within the Rio Grande Valley, an space that always sees massive numbers of border crossings. He will meet border brokers and focus on the necessity for bipartisan laws. It can be his second visit to the border as president. He traveled to El Paso in January final 12 months.

The journeys underscore immigration’s central significance within the 2024 presidential race, for Republicans and more and more for Democrats, significantly after congressional talks on a deal to rein in unlawful immigration collapsed.

President Joe Biden walks alongside a stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso Texas, Jan. 8, 2023.  (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Biden has blamed Republicans for a collapsed bipartisan border deal after Trump got here out in opposition to the plan to tighten asylum restrictions and create day by day limits on border crossings, which reached file highs in December. 

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The Biden administration has been pairing crackdowns on the border with rising authorized pathways for migrants designed to steer individuals into arriving by airplane with sponsors, not illegally on foot to the border. But U.S. coverage proper now permits for migrants to declare asylum no matter how they arrive. And the numbers of migrants flowing to the U.S-Mexico border have far outpaced the capability of an immigration system that has not been considerably up to date in a long time.