Former President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday a planned trip to the nation’s southern border at the end of the month.
Trump, who is nearly five months out of office, said he accepted an invitation from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to visit, arguing the border situation has been mishandled by President Joe Biden.
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“I have accepted the invitation of Texas Governor Greg Abbott to join him on an official visit to our Nation’s decimated Southern Border on Wednesday, June 30, 2021,” he said in a tweemail. “The Biden Administration inherited from me the strongest, safest, and most secure border in U.S history and in mere weeks they turned it into the single worst border crisis in U.S history. It’s an unmitigated disaster zone.”
Vice President Kamala Harris, who Biden announced in March would “lead our efforts with Mexico and the Northern Triangle” to address migration issues, has been the target of criticism from the Right as she has yet to visit the U.S.-Mexico border.
“Our Nation is now one giant sanctuary city where even dangerous criminals are being cut loose and set free inside the U.S interior on a daily basis,” Trump added. “If this weren’t bad enough, Biden and Harris won’t even tour the scenes of the wreckage they created, or come down and visit with the Border Patrol and [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] heroes risking their lives to defend our Nation at a time when the White House is doing everything it can to make their job totally impossible.”
In an interview published on Tuesday, Abbott said he would seek crowdfunding to complete Trump’s border wall project in the state.
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“For everybody in the United States, everybody in the entire world that wants to help Texas build the border wall, there will be a place on there where they can contribute to Texas building the border wall,” he told the conservative podcast Ruthless.
Trump said he hopes his visit will “shine a spotlight on these crimes against our Nation — and show the incredible people of ICE and Border Patrol that they have our unshakeable support.”
