President Biden is traveling to El Paso, Texas, on Sunday to assess enforcement operations at the U.S.-Mexico border.
, a White House official said. The trip comes amid repeated Republican criticism of the president for not traveling to the southern border sooner and of what they say are the ineffective policies of his administration as the situation there has worsened.
During his visit to El Paso, Biden will assess enforcement operations at the Bridge of the Americas Port of Entry — the busiest port in El Paso, which recently received $600 million through the bipartisan infrastructure law, the White House official said. He will be joined on his visit by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas; Texas Democratic Reps.
After his visit, Biden will travel to Mexico City later Sunday to attend the North American Leaders' Summit. The president’s visits comes days after his administration announced additional measures to increase border security. The new policies limit asylum claims at the southern border and expands the use of the Trump-era Covid ban known asTitle 42 will be used to send thousands of Cubans, Haitians and Nicaraguans each month back over the southern border. But the administration will also expand legal pathways for migrants to apply for asylum in the U.S. without making the journey north.
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