President Obama in a hastily arranged press conference Wednesday insisted that he had not visited the U.S.-Mexico border during a trip to Texas because it would amount to political theater.

“This isn’t theater. This is a problem,” Obama said in Dallas following a meeting with Texas Gov. Rick Perry to discuss the surge in unaccompanied minors crossing the southwest border. “

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