Short weekend for Biden in Delaware before trip to El Paso

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President Joe Biden spent to spend a short weekend at his home near Greenville.

Airspace advisories indicate that the president will travel to Delaware on Friday and stay through Saturday.

As official schedules changed, the president traveled to El Paso, Texas on Sunday after ordering changes in border policy in an effort to deal with a surge in illegal immigration. The policy will bar asylum seekers who enter Mexico and Panama in their immigration efforts.

Biden and First Lady jill Biden then flew from El Paso to Santa Lucia, Mexico for a visit to the nation for a meeting of North American Leaders Santa Lucia is the site of a new airport for Mexico City.

The visit came with heavy security, especially after Mexican troops captured a reputed drug kingpin. That led his cartel to unleash a wave of violence with the military operation contributing to the deaths of 29 people.

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Critics have urged the president to visit the border while also taking aim at his frequent trips to Delaware.

Republican governors have been highlighting the issue by sending asylum weeks to cities with Democratic mayors or governors and in the case of Arizona, bringing in cargo containers as a makeshift border wall. The containers are now being removed from federal land.

Florida Gov. and possible Presidential candidate Ron DeSantis was allegedly involved in an effort to fly Venezuelan asylum seekers to southern Delaware last year. The flight never occurred as social services and other personnel stood by awaiting the aircraft.

Biden spent little time in Delaware over the holidays, with trips to New England and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

One report indicates that the cost of Biden’s more than 50 trips to Delaware came to $11 million. Former president Trump’s three trips early in his administration to his Florida resort totaled $13.6 million.

Biden typically used the Marine One helicopter in Delaware trips. The helicopter operates at a fraction of the cost of Air Force One jets.

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