{"id":3746,"date":"2023-01-09T04:49:42","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T10:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3746"},"modified":"2023-03-21T02:21:04","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T07:21:04","slug":"texas-gov-greg-abbott-confronts-biden-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3746","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Confronts Biden Over Border Policies On The Tarmac: \u2018Your Failure\u2019<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a vocal opponent of the president\u2019s border policies, confronted President Joe Biden as he landed in El Paso, Texas.<br \/>\nAbbott was the first to greet Biden as he departed Air Force One onto the Tarmac of the El Paso airport, where he handed the president a\u00a0letter\u00a0with proposed solutions to the border crisis that also excoriated Biden over his handling of the border crisis. Biden\u2019s visit will be his first to the border, a fact that Abbott mentioned as he described Biden\u2019s visit as \u201ctoo late.\u201d\u00a0(RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: \u2018Give The Illusion\u2019: Border Patrol Agents, Union President Pour Cold Water On Biden\u2019s Planned Border Visit)<br \/>\n\u201cYour open-border policies have emboldened the cartels, who grow wealthy by trafficking deadly fentanyl and even human beings,\u201d the letter read. \u201cTexans 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.\u201d<br \/>\nAbbott told the DCNF that he chose to confront the president personally due to Biden\u2019s handling of the border, which Abbott argued had greatly harmed his state of Texas.<br \/>\n\u201cThe President announced on Thursday that he was gonna be coming to the border and we didn\u2019t hear from him. He said he was gonna meet with local officials. Last night, a staff person in my office received an invitation from the president\u2019s office for me to greet the president at the tarmac, which I did do as I always do,\u201d Abbott said after speaking with Biden, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Democratic Texas Reps. Veronica Escobar, Henry Cuellar and Vicente Gonz\u00e1lez.<br \/>\n\u201cBut I wanted to use the opportunity to express to the president the damage that he\u2019s caused in the state of Texas and the solutions that he could deploy today to eliminate that damage, to restore the immigration system to an orderly system and to eliminate illegal immigration,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2023\/01\/08\/joe-biden-greg-abbott-southern-border\/\">Dailycaller<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a vocal opponent of the president\u2019s border policies, confronted President Joe Biden as he landed in El Paso, Texas. Abbott was the first to greet Biden as he departed Air Force One onto the Tarmac of the El Paso airport, where he handed the president a\u00a0letter\u00a0with proposed solutions to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3747,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1594,1169,3876,2958,1506,2918,4000,1298],"class_list":["post-3746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-abbott","tag-biden","tag-border-crossers","tag-border-policy","tag-governor","tag-illegal-entry","tag-opponents","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3746"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8171,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3746\/revisions\/8171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}