#shorts Joe Biden will not be visiting the southern border during his trip to Arizona despite repeated calls from Republicans for the president to see the migrant crisis first-hand. Instead, Biden’s top spokesperson accused Republican lawmakers of engaging in political stunts by visiting the southern border and encouraging the president to do the same.

On 12/5/2022, Fox News reporter Jacqui Heinrich asked White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, “Just a follow-up on Edward’s question. If the President is not going to make time to visit the border during his trip tomorrow — during his trip tomorrow to a border state, will he do it in — in the new year?

MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Look, I addressed this last week about the President visiting the border. I’m not going to go beyond what I just laid out.

I think and we believe the question, again, as I was just answering to your colleague in the back, is that: What are congressional Republicans going to do to actually deal with this issue instead of doing political stunts — many of them political stunts that hurt families … Instead of going to the border and talking about — you know, about things that — not going to actually deliver and keep our borders safe, why don’t they work with us? Why don’t they actually do something? Why don’t they actually, you know, help the President … But again, they’re playing political games and doing political stunts.

Jean-Pierre was referencing a flurry of trips made to the U.S. border with Mexico by several individuals and delegations of Republican lawmakers. “There’s ways to deal with this,” she insisted. “Again, they could come and actually do this in a bipartisan way.”

Since taking office nearly two years ago, Biden has not once visited the southern border. Given the chance to do so during his upcoming trip to the southern border state of Arizona, he has decided to continue balking the issue. The president’s spokesperson brushed off any suggestions that Biden should be visiting the border or touching on border state issues considering he is visiting on Tuesday a state that shares a southern border with Mexico, where a barrage of migrants are crossing every day. Biden’s immigration policies have led to record-seeing numbers in border crossings since January 2021.

The start of Fiscal Year 2023 came with Customs and Border Protection reporting encounters with 230,678 migrants at the southern border. This monthly report is the third-highest in recent history, with the first two occurring during FY2022. One of Biden’s policies that Jean-Pierre said Republicans should collaborate with is prioritizing deportation of illegal immigrants that are deemed national security or public safety threats since the Department of Homeland Security does not have the manpower or budget to deport the approximately 11 million migrants living in the U.S. illegally.

On 12/5/2022, Biden is visiting a semiconductor chip plan, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited, in Phoenix, Arizona. He will tour the plant and deliver remarks celebrating his economic plan and the “manufacturing boom”.

other clips of this published longer video is here: https://youtu.be/rYvYy0HkZ5Q
New Year? Reiterates Biden Will Not Visit Border This Week Despite NEVER Having Been There