Texas governor says Biden team failed to communicate on border visit  

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) on Sunday accused the Biden group of failing to speak with native officers about President Biden’s go to to the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas.  

“Pay attention, throughout this complete time, Joe Biden has not known as me. He didn’t name me, nor [did] his workers name, and tell us, both about his go to or to ask us, till final night time. We acquired a random e-mail to one among my workers members asking if I might be there to fulfill him on the tarmac,” Abbott stated on Fox Information’s “Sunday Morning Futures.”

“They’ve failed to speak,” the Texas governor stated of the administration. 

However Biden’s Homeland Safety secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, stated Sunday that Abbott was the one dragging his ft in talks with the administration on the broader situation of immigration on the southern border. 

“Governor Abbott is just not collaborating with the federal authorities on a problem that requires collaboration,” Mayorkas stated on ABC’s “This Week.” 

“We can not have the rights and the wants of people who’re searching for humanitarian aid in america be exploited for political functions. We can not have unilateral governor motion that isn’t coordinated with the federal authorities to deal with a problem that’s of nationwide significance,” Mayorkas stated.   

Biden’s Sunday journey to the border is his first as president, and comes amid rising issues amongst border-state Republican governors over the file numbers of migrants making an attempt to cross into the U.S. 

Abbott and different Republicans on the state and federal ranges have been pressuring Biden to make the go to however continued on Sunday to criticize Democrats’ border insurance policies. 

“It’s clear that immigration is a political situation that excessive Republicans are at all times going to run on. However now they’ve a selection: They will maintain utilizing immigration to attempt to rating political factors or they might help resolve the issue,” Biden stated in remarks on the White Home final week. 

Abbott on Sunday stated the president’s journey is “two years too late.” 

“All he’s going to do down there may be rearrange the chairs on the deck of the Titanic. He’s not going to attain any options that can make the border safer, safer and cease unlawful immigration,” Abbott stated.