President Biden is set to visit the southern border on Thursday – the same day former President Trump is also scheduled to go.
Biden is expected to travel to Brownsville, Texas, to meet with U.S. Border Patrol agents, law enforcement and local leaders, according to a White House official.
That same day, Trump is to deliver remarks in Eagle Pass, Texas, Fox News previously confirmed.
Brownsville and Eagle Pass are about 325 miles, or about a five-hour, 20-minute drive, apart.
Biden is expected to use his trip to talk about the importance of passing the Senate’s bipartisan border security agreement, the White House official said, adding that the president will “reiterate his calls for Congressional Republicans to stop playing politics and to provide the funding needed for additional U.S. Border Patrol agents, more asylum officers, fentanyl detection technology and more.”
Border Patrol Union slams Biden border visit as ‘too little, too late’ just to ‘try to save himself’
The Border Patrol Union on Monday ridiculed President Biden’s planned visit to the border this week as a cynical ploy to save his presidency at the expense of Americans’ safety.
In a statement received by Fox News Digital, the union said Biden’s planned border visit, three years into his term, “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 done everything he can to secure the border were true.
“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 said.
“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.
