Biden Greeted by Abbott with Scathing Letter Slamming His Border Blunders

By will January 9, 2023Updated:January 9, 2023

Brandon’s trip to El Paso, Texas, the current event horizon of the border disaster in that state, marked the first time that President Biden has visited the border during his presidency, which has now dragged on for two long years.
Fortunately, Texas Governor Greg Abbott was prepared to use the trip to his advantage. Rather than doing what DeSantis did when Biden visited Florida following the hurricane and tag along like a lost puppy, Abbott decided to make a mockery of the president and spectacle of things by handing him a letter, sparking questions about what was contained in it.

Abbott then quieted the speculation and turned up the heat on Brandon by sharing the letter on Twitter along with the comment “Hand-delivered a letter to President Biden today during his first visit to the border. His trip is $20 billion too little & 2 years too late. I’m calling on Biden to do his constitutional duty to protect our nation.”



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Hand-delivered a letter to President Biden today during his first visit to the border. His trip is $20 billion too little & 2 years too late. I’m calling on Biden to do his constitutional duty to protect our nation.



2:51 PM · Jan 8, 2023

As you can see in the image of the letter, Governor Abbott wrote:

“Dear President Biden:
Your visit to our southern border with Mexico today is $20 billion too little and two years too late. Moreover, your visit avoids the sites where mass illegal immigration occurs and sidesteps the thousands of angry Texas property owners whose lives have been destroyed by your border policies. Even the city you visit has been sanitized of the migrant camps which had overrun downtown El Paso because your Administration wants to shield you from the chaos that Texans experience on a daily basis. This chaos is the direct result of your failure to enforce the immigration laws that Congress enacted.
“Under President Trump, the federal government achieved historically low levels of immigration. Under your watch, by contrast, America is suffering the worst illegal immigration in the history of our country. Your open-border policies have emboldened the cartels, who grow wealthy by trafficking deadly fentanyl and even human beings. Texans are paying an especially high price for your failure, sometimes with their very lives, as local leaders from your own party will tell you if given the chance.
“All of this is happening because you have violated your constitutional obligation to defend the States against invasion through faithful execution of federal laws. Halfway through your presidency, though, I can finally welcome you to the border. When you finish the photo-ops in a carefully stage-managed version of El Paso, you have a job to do.


  • You must comply with the many statutes mandating that various categories of aliens “shall” be detained, and end the practice of unlawfully paroling aliens en masse.
  • You must stop sandbagging the implementation of the Remain-in-Mexico policy and Title 42 expulsions, and fully enforce those measures as the federal courts have ordered you to do.
  • You must aggressively prosecute illegal entry between ports of entry, and allow ICE to remove illegal immigrants in accordance with existing federal laws.
  • You must immediately resume construction of the border wall in the State of Texas, using the billions of dollars Congress has appropriated for that purpose.
  • You must designate the Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.”

That wasn’t all. Following up on the picture letter with another comment, Abbott said “Texas is paying the price for President Biden’s inaction, & we are taking unprecedented action to protect our state. Time for Biden to secure the border by enforcing federal immigration laws.”
Will Biden secure the border? Almost certainly not. But at least Abbott used the opportunity to highlight what Biden should do in a high-profile way sure to draw yet more attention to the border crisis.

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