Texas governor suggests Biden group unsuccessful to connect on border pay a visit to

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) on Sunday accused the Biden workforce of failing to communicate with community officers about President Biden’s pay a visit to to the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas.

“Listen, for the duration of this whole time, Joe Biden has not called me. He did not simply call me, nor [did] his employees phone, and permit us know, both about his stop by or to invite us, until finally final night time. We got a random e-mail to just one of my team users inquiring if I would be there to meet up with him on the tarmac,” Abbott stated on Fox News’s “Sunday Early morning Futures.”

“They have failed to connect,” the Texas governor stated of the administration.

But Biden’s Homeland Security secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, claimed Sunday that Abbott was the a single dragging his feet in talks with the administration on the broader situation of immigration at the southern border.

“Governor Abbott is not collaborating with the federal authorities on an challenge that involves collaboration,” Mayorkas stated on ABC’s “This Week.”

“We simply cannot have the rights and the demands of people who are looking for humanitarian aid in the United States be exploited for political needs. We can not have unilateral governor action that is not coordinated with the federal federal government to handle an problem that is of nationwide great importance,” Mayorkas claimed.

Biden’s Sunday journey to the border is his initially as president, and arrives amid growing worries among the border-point out Republican governors over the document numbers of migrants trying to cross into the U.S.

Abbott and other Republicans at the condition and federal levels have been pressuring Biden to make the check out but ongoing on Sunday to criticize Democrats’ border procedures.

“It’s crystal clear that immigration is a political concern that excessive Republicans are generally likely to operate on. But now they have a option: They can keep employing immigration to check out to score political points or they can assistance address the problem,” Biden reported in remarks at the White Property last 7 days.

Abbott on Sunday explained the president’s trip is “two years too late.”

“All he’s going to do down there is rearrange the chairs on the deck of the Titanic. He’s not likely to accomplish any options that will make the border safer, additional protected and halt illegal immigration,” Abbott reported.

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