Biden says he hasnt had time to visit southern border admits he probably should

It is unclear whether Biden has ever traveled to the southern border

President Joe Biden said that he hasn’t had time to visit the southern border to address the surge in illegal immigrants and admitted that he “should go down.”

“I’ve been there before, I know it well, I guess I should go down,” Biden told CNN’s Anderson Cooper during a town hall event. “The whole point of it is, I haven’t had a whole hell of a lot of time to get down.”

Biden blamed the damage done by hurricanes and his trips to visit affected areas as a reason why he has not yet visited the border.

It is not clear whether or not Biden has ever traveled to the border as a senator, vice-president, or concerned citizen, and multiple queries from Fox News to the White House have not produced an answer.

The migrant crisis at the southern border continues to plague the Biden administration, and recent data show arrests by Border Patrol have soared to the highest levels since 1986.

U.S. authorities detained more than 1.7 million migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border during the 2021 fiscal year, which ended in September, according to CBP data obtained by the Washington Post.

Attorney General Merrick Garland did not have an answer to a question about how many migrants the Justice Department is prosecuting for illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, which is a federal crime.

At least 160,000 illegal immigrants have been released into the U.S., often with little to no supervision, by the Biden administration since March – including a broad use of limited parole authorities to make more than 30,000 eligible for work permits since August, Border Patrol documents obtained by Fox News earlier this month showed.

Border Patrol sources told Fox News that as many as 60,000 migrants are massing on the Mexican side and intend to enter the U.S. in the coming days, knowing that the Biden administration intends to re-implement the Trump-era policy next month in response to a court order from a federal judge that was upheld by the Supreme Court.

(Source Fox News)