Biden to visit southern border amid migration surge, two years after taking office

President Joe Biden will visit the U.S. border with Mexico next week amid an unprecedented surge in illegal migration, he confirmed to reporters on Wednesday.

While traveling to Kentucky, Biden was asked if he was "going to the border," to which he responded "[t]hat's my intention," according to the New York Post.

A record 2.4 million migrants illegally entered the United States in fiscal year 2022 alone, with roughly 4 million doing so since Biden took office. Republicans have derided the situation at the porous border as a crisis and heavily scrutinized the leadership of both Biden and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

Vice President Kamala Harris, whom Biden tapped to address migration issues, visited the border in mid-2021, months after her appointment as "border czar." 

In a bid to highlight the Biden administration's handling of the situation, Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has spearheaded a move to bus illegal migrants to sanctuary cities and left-wing bastions, sending many to Washington, D.C., and dumping them on Harris's doorstep.

This week, Colorado's Democratic Governor Jared Polis let New York City Mayor Eric Adams know that he was also going to be bussing migrants to the Big Apple.