Haley accuses Biden of 'dereliction of duty' for border crisis

In becoming the first 2024 presidential candidate to visit the southern U.S. border, Republican Nikki Haley is accusing Democrat President Joe Biden of "dereliction of duty," over the surge in immigration and the related problems.

"This is a dereliction of duty by President Biden," Haley told Fox News while at the border Monday. "I don't know why the Democrats are allowing him to run."

She also criticized the president for not discussing the border crisis.

"Biden thinks if he doesn't talk about it, it doesn't exist," she said. "For the people here now ... it does exist every day, and now it is in every state in the country."

Haley, a former governor of South Carolina and U.N. ambassador, proposed hiring 25,000 more Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents as part of her solution to the problem.

The other candidates for the 2024 Republican presidential primary are former President Donald Trump, former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy.

Madeleine Hubbard is an international correspondent for Just the News. Follow her on Twitter or Instagram.