EL PASO, Texas — Eight Democratic and Republican senators will follow President Joe Biden’s short visit to the U.S.-Mexico border with an extensive two-day trip in El Paso and Arizona, meeting with federal, state, and local officials responding to the immigration crisis.
Border state Sens. John Cornyn and Kyrsten Sinema will lead a delegation to West Texas on Monday afternoon for a day of tours that will go well into the night as lawmakers go out on the border with federal Border Patrol agents.
A spokeswoman for Sinema said the trip was already on the books before Biden announced last week that he would stop in El Paso Sunday on his way to Mexico City and that Sinema had announced the visit in a floor speech on Dec. 20.The gang of eight — three Democrats, one independent, and four Republicans — will include Sens. James Lankford , Mark Kelly , Thom Tillis , Chris Murphy , Jerry Moran , and Chris Coons .
While at the city's temporary Emergency Migrant Operations Facility, formerly Bassett Middle School, they will hear from El Paso government leaders, nonprofit groups, and law enforcement about the local economic and public safety impacts of more than 90,000 immigrant releases downtown since August.
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