Brownsville resident slams Biden for planning visit to Texas border city when migrant crossings are down
NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: Co-host Brian Kilmeade was joined by Brownsville, Texas resident Deborah Bell to discuss the upcoming visit of President Joe Biden to the border city on 'Fox & Friends.'
Biden plans to visit the city on February 29 to assess the border crisis, a White House official reportedly stated. However, the timing of the trip may prevent him from getting a real picture of the situation, worried Bell, as the crossings in the Rio Grande Valley sector have recently dropped amidst local festive days.
The President is expected to highlight the importance of passing the bipartisan border agreement during his visit, said the official, adding that he would "reiterate his calls for Congressional Republicans to stop playing politics and to provide the funding needed for additional US Border Patrol agents, more asylum officers, fentanyl detection technology and more."
Deborah Bell's take on President Biden's visit
"The residents, the agents, everybody's talking about how this is gonna be a dog and pony show," Bell told Kilmeade.
"He (Biden) is coming at a wonderful time. We're in the middle of a Charro Days festival, which is a celebration between Matamoros, Mexico, and Brownsville, Texas," she continued. "And so things are going to look nice. The downtown area is already cleaned up, roped off. We're getting ready to have some really great parades and some real cultural celebration going on here."
"So things are already going to look nice, but whatever needs to be fixed will be fixed, obviously, for President Biden. And let's say if it wasn't fixed, he doesn't care anyways. He knows exactly what he's done to our country, and he's just coming to survey his damage."
Deborah Bell says 'people are not happy' with Biden's Brownsville visit
According to Bell, the timing of the President's visit was upsetting to many community members as it comes after a 23 per cent drop in illegal crossings in the 2024 fiscal year is seen, and not when the crisis was at its peak.
"People are not happy that he is choosing right now of all times to come to Brownsville. Crossings are down, but voting numbers are up and people are not happy down here," she stated.
Running for the Cameron County GOP chair, she added, "In the past eight years, we've had the highest Republican turnout show up in Cameron County. We've had some really great grassroots movement here, and I think the nation is taking notice."
