Donald Trump and Joe Biden are set to go to completely different elements of the border in Texas on Thursday. (File)

Washington:

President Joe Biden and Donald Trump will each go to the US-Mexico border on Thursday in a high-profile conflict of schedules as they vie to win over voters on immigration — one of many hottest points within the 2024 election.

With file numbers of migrants crossing into the US, Biden has sought to defuse a significant risk to his reelection marketing campaign by blaming Congress for failing to again his reforms.

For Trump, a tough anti-immigration stance has been central to his political id for years, and he has repeatedly vowed to crack down on crossings from Mexico as he seeks a return to the White Home.

The rivals are set to go to completely different elements of the border in Texas on Thursday, organising a notable split-screen second lower than eight months earlier than Individuals go to the polls.

White Home spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre declined to remark after Trump officers claimed with out proof that Biden had hurriedly deliberate his journey after Trump’s go to was introduced.

“I haven’t got a response to the previous president, I’m not going to talk to his schedule,” Jean-Pierre mentioned, including that Biden would meet with border patrol brokers, regulation enforcement and native leaders in Brownsville, Texas.

“He’ll reiterate his requires congressional Republicans to cease enjoying politics and to offer the funding wanted for extra US Border Patrol brokers, extra asylum officers, fentanyl detection expertise and extra,” she mentioned.

Throughout a go to to an ice cream store in New York Monday, Biden additionally indicated he wasn’t conscious of his probably opponent’s journey plans forward of time.

“I deliberate (the Texas journey) for Thursday, what I did not know was that my good good friend apparently goes,” he advised reporters in an obvious reference to Trump.

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Nor did Biden say whether or not he would meet with migrants, after criticism that he didn’t achieve this on a earlier go to.

“I am not going to announce forward of time,” he mentioned in New York.

Trump, who will head to Eagle Move, about 300 miles (480 kilometers) to the west of Brownsville, unleashed a recent social media outburst over migration.

“Vicious gangs and gang members are pouring into our nation from South America, and from everywhere in the world… deposited into the Good Ole’ USA by the tens of 1000’s” Trump mentioned. “Biden won’t ever have the ability to deal with it.”

A Trump spokesman mentioned that “Biden chasing us to the border on the identical day exhibits simply how massive of an issue that is for him.”

Republicans blame Biden’s insurance policies favoring the precise to asylum for the move of migrants, whereas the White Home says that Trump’s celebration is intentionally sabotaging a c try to discover a answer.

The newest invoice, which has stalled within the Senate after the Republican management within the Home of Representatives pledged to torpedo it, could be “the hardest and fairest set of reforms to safe the border in many years,” Jean-Pierre advised reporters aboard Air Pressure One as Biden headed to New York for a marketing campaign occasion.

Public concern about unlawful immigration is larger below Biden than it was below the final two administrations, in response to a brand new ballot.

It mentioned a majority of Individuals now help constructing a border wall — a flagship Trump coverage — for the primary time since Monmouth began asking the query in 2015.

“Unlawful immigration has taken middle stage as a defining concern this presidential election 12 months,” mentioned Patrick Murray, director of the unbiased Monmouth College Polling Institute.

“Different Monmouth polling discovered this to be Biden’s weakest coverage space, together with amongst his fellow Democrats.”

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