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Biden, Trump dueling visits put border fight under spotlight

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USA TODAY

Daily News, News

4.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump made competing visits to the border Thursday.

More than 100 Palestinians were killed when Israeli troops opened fire on people waiting for food.

USA TODAY National Correspondent Chris Kenning reports on the potential impact of new voting laws in North Carolina.

The Pentagon classified document leak suspect is expected to plead guilty Monday.

USA TODAY Money and Personal Finance Reporter Medora Lee talks about a loophole for Parent PLUS loan holders.


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Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Friday March 1st, 2024. This is the

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excerpt. Today a look at Biden and Trump's separate trips to the border.

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Plus there's a grim death toll in Gaza and what new voting laws might mean in

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North Carolina.

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President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump made separate clashing visits

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at the US-Mexico border yesterday.

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Biden called on Trump to join him in asking Congress to pass wide-ranging border security legislation

0:46.4

negotiated by a team of Democratic and Republican senators, which the House GOP rejected at Trump's urging.

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I understand my predecessors in Eagle past today.

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So here's what I would say to Mr. Trump.

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Instead of playing policies with issue,

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instead of telling members of Congress to block this legislation.

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Join me or I'll join you in telling the Congress to pass this bipartisan

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Border Security bill. We can do it together. Those comments were made in Brownsville, Texas across the border from Matamoros, Mexico.

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Trump, speaking at around the same time, 325 miles away in Eagle Pass, Texas pointed to what he called a

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historically secure border under his administration.

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Three years ago we had the most secure border in history.

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Brandon was saying it, the general was saying it.

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We had the most secure border and people weren't coming

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because they knew they weren't going to get in.

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