reporter: to that point, kaitlan, he has been facing growing calls to visit the u.s./mexico border as the administration deals with a record breaking surge of migrants, and on sunday he was forced to face that political problem that has no quick and easy solution. texas governor, greg abbott, a fierce critic of the biden administration, greeted biden when he arrived and gave him a letter. that letter criticizing the administration s immigration approach. over the course of the hours long visit, the president went to a port of entry, the border wall, and the migrant processing center that you mentioned earlier where he didn t appear to see migrants. advocates say he left the visit without seeing the worst of the humanitarian crisis, a crisis that remains a challenge for the administration and one biden is likely to talk about here in mexico during the north american leader s summit. this is the first time we see
Capabilities the resources that they want and how they re dealing with the migrants. he did visit a migrant processing center. there weren t any migrants there at the time he visited. but it was really the focus was on resources and capabilities and having a chance to talk to faith leaders and ngos having us deal with the influx of migrants. neil: there s been talks whether it was those loyal to the president or outside forces, everything was spruced up for him where there were migrants and encampments and the rest. they all disappeared. do you know anything about that or who cleaned things up? no, i wouldn t talk about any kind of preparations that were made. the president came away from his trip to el paso really feeling like he got a good sense of the need that he had a chance to have honest frank, candid forthright conversations with everyone involved with the challenges down there and he s
Governor abbott says visit to our southern border in mexico today s $20 billion to little in too late. avoid the sites are most illegal immigration occurs and sidesteps the thousands of angry texas property owners whose lives have been destroyed by your border policies. your administration wants to shield you from the chaos that texans experience on a daily basis. the chaos as a direct result of our failure to enforce the immigration laws that congress enacted. i know that s a lot to throughout you. give us your take on that, phil. president biden did not see any chaos as you pointed out, jon. he went to that port of entry pretty went to that migrant processing center. it was completely different from the images we have been saying for the last two years. there been more than 2.4 arrests on the border, several more got a ways. we have heard from border patrol repeatedly that this is a crisis they are not prepared to
To go back to the days where we nominate candidates not based on how whacky they are, how deranged they are, how extreme they are. but based on their basic qualifications to serve. the second lesson in this is, that we have to begin to reinvest in local journalism. we need to make sure demo democracy depends on trans transparency. and journalists need that transparency when they report on that. that s important about local journalism and how much happens at the state level. exactly. thank you very much. appreciate it, congressman. thank you. also this morning a new migrant processing center is being built in el paso despite a supreme court decision to keep a trump era border policy that allows agents to expel migrants,