Texas Governor Greg Abbott met President Joe Biden when Air Force One touched down in Texas on December 3, 2023, and handed him a letter, which began, ‘Your visit to our southern border with Mexico today is $20 billion too little and two years too late’.
In the letter, Governor Abbott outlined five ways that he believed Biden can restore order to the border through the ‘faithful execution of federal laws’.
These include: ‘comply with the many statutes mandating that various categories of aliens ‘shall’ be detained, and end the practice of unlawfully paroling aliens en masse’;
‘fully enforcing the Remain-in-Mexico policy and Title 42 expulsions’
‘aggressively prosecute illegal entry between ports of entry and allow ICE to remove illegal immigrants in accordance with existing federal laws’;
‘resume construction of the border wall in the State of Texas, using the billions of dollars Congress has appropriated for that purpose’;
and ‘designate the Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations’.
In recent weeks, the Biden administration announced new immigration restrictions, which would “limit the number of migrants entering America illegally from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti, and Venezuela to 30,000 per month.” The plan also “expands a Department of Homeland Security program implemented in October limiting the number of Venezuelans entering America illegally.” In addition, it would allow migrants from Cuba, Nicaragua, and Haiti to apply for entry through an American who agrees to sponsor the immigrant.
Abbott went on to note that the president’s “visit avoids the sites where mass illegal immigration occurs,” adding that the city “has been sanitized of the migrant camps which had overrun downtown El Paso because your Administration wants to shield you from the chaos that Texans experience on a daily basis.” The Daily Signal reported that “city officials dismantled homeless migrant encampments in El Paso ahead of Biden’s visit.”
