House Republicans to Join Trump on Southern Border Visit, Vow to Carry on His Immigration ‘Legacy’

After a group of Republicans from the House’s Republican Study Committee (RSC) joined former President Trump at his golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey earlier this month, another group from the RSC plan to join him for his visit to the southern border at the end of the month in Texas.

In a statement to POLITICO, the chair of the committee Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) said “President Trump spent four years fixing the border. But the Biden administration broke it again, and we are now experiencing the worst border crisis in our history.”

“That’s why the RSC has made carrying on the Trump legacy on immigration our top priority this Congress and why we are heading to the border with President Trump to explain how we can end this national embarrassment,” Banks added.

Following news of Trump’s planned border visit, Vice President Kamala Harris now plans to visit the border on Friday, prior to the former president’s trip.

Trump declared in a statement yesterday, “If Governor Abbott and I weren’t going there next week, [VP Harris] would have never gone!”

Last week, we reported:

Today, former President Donald Trump said that he has accepted an invitation from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) to join him at the country’s southern border on Wednesday, June 30 after Abbott announced Texas would build its own border wall last Thursday.

Trump said in a press release that President Joe Biden’s administration has created the “single worst border crisis in U.S. history” and pointed out that when his administration left office, the border was strong, safe and secure.

In the statement, Trump slammed Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for not visiting the border or visiting with Border Patrol or Immigration and Customs Enforcement and that their lack of response doesn’t help the “unmitigated disaster zone.”

“Our brave border agents and courageous ICE officers have been illegally stopped from doing their jobs. Our nation is now one giant sanctuary city where even dangerous criminals are being cut loose and set free inside the U.S interior on a daily basis,” Trump added, with hopes that his visit will show them that they are supported.

Abbott spoke with Sean Hannity on Fox News last night and said that “we want to arrest people and put them in jail for a long time.”

In a tweet where he shared a clip of the interview and explained, “Texas will finish what President Trump started. Later this week, I will unveil our plans to build a border wall. The Lone Star State will do what Biden REFUSES to do — protect our citizens along the southern border.”