Border Patrol: El Paso Cleaned Up ‘Just in Time’ for President Biden’s First Border Visit During Term
President Joe Biden visited El Paso, Texas on Sunday, to see the ongoing crisis at the southern border, as thousands illegally immigrate into the United States. This visit marks the first time during his Presidency that Biden or Vice President and “border czar” Kamala Harris have gone to the border to address the conditions.
In anticipation of President Biden’s arrival, state and local authorities cleaned up the town of El Paso, moving the hundreds of migrants that have been camped out on the streets for weeks to detention centers. As large groups of migrants were taken to packed facilities, many personal items were left behind.
“. . . U.S. Border Patrol agents swept up large crowds of migrants near the Greyhound bus terminal.
By Thursday morning, all that remained were sidewalks lined with piles of blankets, clothes and toys – which were thrown away by city crews who quickly swept and cleaned up the area.”
El Paso Matters report
The New York Post reported that six buses of mostly Venezuelan migrants were seen leaving El Paso and heading towards Mexico, in addition to the nearly 200 people who were sent back across the border prior to the President’s arrival.
The clean-up efforts caused the Border Patrol Union to post complaints to Twitter, stating “El Paso being cleaned up as if nothing unusual ever happened there . . . We suggest just landing in Des Moines, Iowa and telling [President Biden] it’s El Paso. He’ll never know the difference.”
Southern Texas communities have experienced a nonstop flow of illegal immigrants across the southern border, some trafficking drugs, weapons, and even humans, for the past two years. The mainstream media at large has ignored the crisis, keeping the majority of the country in the dark about the conditions along the border. Because so many citizens in northern states were in media-induced denial that there is no crisis, the governors of Texas and Arizona began sending bus loads of migrants to sanctuary cities across the country — getting their point across, and easing strain on border communities.
El Paso residents wanted the country, and most importantly, the President, to see what has been occurring in border communities, to see the hundreds of people left to sleep on streets in freezing cold temperatures because it is impossible to build infrastructure large enough to house everyone.
