Texas Border Mayor: Biden’s New Immigration Order is About Election-Year Optics

Texas Border Mayor: Biden’s New Immigration Order is About Election-Year Optics

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President Joe Biden invited several border city mayors to his signing of an executive order limiting asylum claims at the southwest border on Tuesday. The order allegedly aims to further reduce slower migrant crossing rates that have dropped precipitously since January. One Texas mayor, Rolando Salinas of Eagle Pass, one of the nation’s busiest migrant crossing points during Biden’s first three years in office, was left off the invite list and questions the motive and timing for the president’s newest executive order.

Breitbart Texas spoke with Mayor Salinas. He said he received a call from a White House staffer informing him of the development and signing ceremony on Tuesday but did not receive an invitation to attend. “I’m sure the lack of invitation may be related to how outspoken and critical I was of the administration as our city faced the immigration crisis,” Salinas told Breitbart Texas.

Salinas says he sees the lack of inclusion of Eagle Pass as not just a personal affront but also an affront to all the citizens of the city that has seen its ports of entry for pedestrians, vehicles, and rail traffic shut down due to the overwhelming number of migrant crossings during President Biden’s first term. The surge of migrant traffic making the city the busiest crossing point into the United States at times resulted in huge expenditures by the city’s Fire Department who are often tasked with responding to migrant medical emergencies, drownings, and heat-related deaths.

The toll still mounts as migrant crossings continue, albeit at a much lower pace. As reported by Breitbart Texas, in one recent five-day span, five migrants perished in and around Eagle Pass attempting to make the dangerous crossing into the country.

The mayor says he welcomes any action that limits the number of people crossing illegally into the city. He added, “I can’t help but question why this was not done last year when our city saw two to three thousand people per day crossing, when our bridge had to be shut down, and businesses were hurting. We could have used executive action back then as well.”

Salinas says he believes the timing is all about election-year optics and should have come much sooner.

He added, “I get it, we’re not blind down here; we know what’s going on.”

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