Chris Lange, FISM News
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As the nation continues to grapple with the worst illegal immigration crisis seen in decades, President Joe Biden has still apparently not found the time to visit the southern border, the Republican National Convention pointed out recently.
The growing death toll of migrants attempting to enter the U.S., Customs and Border Protection reports of children as young as two found abandoned at the border, and even the deaths of more than 100,000 U.S. citizens from fentanyl smuggled into the U.S. have not been enough to compel Biden to visit the U.S.-Mexico border, though he has racked up an impressive number of days at his Delaware beach house.
“OCTOBER 21, 2021: Biden said he hasn’t visited the border because he hasn’t ‘had a whole hell of a lot of time.’ Since then, Biden has spent 141 days on vacation,” RNC Research pointed out in a recent tweet.
By the end of August, however, Biden managed to take 234 vacation days since taking office, with the lion’s share spent at his Wilmington and Rehoboth Beach houses in Delaware.
In fact, it appears that Biden has never once visited the southern border in his 40-plus years serving as an elected official.
During a September 2021 press briefing that came on the heels of the White House’s false accusations that Border agents in Del Rio, Texas had “whipped” Haitian migrants, a reporter asked then White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki if Biden had ever been to the southern border.
“In his life?” Psaki asked, going on to say that she would “have to … look back in my history books and check the times he’s been to the southern border,” though she never “circled back” to supply the information in subsequent briefings.
“Why doesn’t he go down to Del Rio, Texas, and see what’s going on?” Fox News’s White House correspondent Peter Doocy asked.
Psaki cryptically replied that “the president certainly relies on his experience.”
Roughly a month later, CNN Town Hall host Anderson Cooper asked the president if he had any plans to visit the U.S.-Mexico border.
“I’ve been there before, and I haven’t — I mean, I know it well. I guess I should go down,” Biden responded.
“But the whole point of it is, I haven’t had a whole hell of a lot of time to get down,” he continued, citing the fact that he had been busy “going around looking at the $900 billion worth of damage done by — by hurricanes and floods and weather and traveling around the world.”
“But, I plan on — now, my wife, Jill, has been down. She’s been on both sides of the river. She’s seen the circumstances there. She’s looked into those places,” he added.
Exactly one year ago on Saturday, Biden said of the Del Rio Sector Horse Patrol Unit that, “[t]o see people treated like they did, horses running them over and people getting strapped, it’s outrageous. I promise you those people will pay.”
He has never apologized for the hence disproven remark. FISM reported in June that, despite the fact that all agents involved were cleared of any criminal wrongdoing, the Biden administration said it would pursue disciplinary action against the agents for unspecified “administrative violations.” At the time of the report, the agents had not been reinstated to their former duties and remained barred from having any contact with migrants.