11 GOP governors to visit Texas border to discuss immigration

MISSION, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and 10 different Republican governors are acceptable to sojourn the U.S.-Mexico borderline successful Mission to telephone attraction to unauthorized migration Wednesday.

Along with Abbott and different Texas officials, the like-minded governors of Arizona, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Wyoming are acceptable to clasp a property league astir the borderline situation astatine astir 1 p.m. ET.

Abbott said helium and his chap authorities leaders volition sermon enactment that they’re taking to unafraid the borderline and support communities safe.

“Texas is not sitting connected the sidelines of this borderline situation (and) neither are governors crossed our nation,” Abbott tweeted Tuesday.

In a property release, Idaho Gov. Brad Little said he’s traveling to the borderline to “witness firsthand the situation playing out,” to uncover projected solutions, and to telephone connected President Joe Biden to “act to unafraid the borderline immediately.”

GOP governors crossed the state person been captious of galore of Biden’s policies, including the Democrat’s handling of the concern astatine the border. Those criticisms were heightened erstwhile thousands of migrants, galore from Haiti, acceptable up makeshift camps on the Rio Grande River. Those camps person present mostly been dispersed.

During the trip, Little’s bureau says the governors volition besides instrumentality a vessel circuit of the Rio Grande River with Texas Department of Public Safety agents.

The U.S. has seen a emergence successful the fig of migrants astatine the borderline successful caller months. The U.S. Border Patrol reported astir 200,000 encounters with migrants on the borderline successful July, the highest monthly full successful much than 2 decades, according to Pew Research.

The migrants are traveling to the borderline for a fig of reasons, but galore are fleeing unspeakable surviving conditions successful immoderate Central American and Caribbean countries, with hopes of a amended beingness successful the U.S.