Trump also said he wouldn’t endorse Ducey for a rumored U.S. The meeting would have been significant because both politicians once were close with Trump but have since fallen out of his favor and made moves to distance themselves.Ī spokesperson for Trump slammed Pence in a statement before a trip to Georgia in May, saying Trump salvaged his career and that Pence is now desperate to become relevant again. “He is asymptomatic and feeling well but will not be attending the border tour and policy address with Vice President Mike Pence,” said Ducey spokesperson Morgan Carr. illegally.īiden announces regional migration initiative at Summit of the Americas In his remarks to the commerce authority, Pence said he saw the spot in Cochise County where construction of the border wall stopped, and he spoke with ranchers who lived in the area.Īlthough he hasn’t announced a campaign for an elected office, Pence outlined an agenda he wanted for the border, including finishing former President Donald Trump’s signature border wall getting rid of sanctuary cities rejecting amnesty, recommitting to the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico” policy, which forces asylum seekers to wait out their cases in Mexico and deporting any migrants who entered the U.S. In April, the most recent data available, Customs and Border Patrol encountered more than 52,000 migrants trying to enter the country in the Yuma and Tucson sectors – a 54% increase from a year ago.
“Along our 2,000 mile border is a crisis of epic proportions, and it’s costing lives on both sides of the border,” Pence said, referring to federal agents’ encounters with migrants entering or attempting to enter the U.S. border security and immigration, which echoed many of the policies of the Trump administration. PHOENIX – Former Vice President Mike Pence visited the U.S.-Mexico border in Cochise County on Monday, then addressed a crowd at the Arizona Commerce Authority in Phoenix on his vision for U.S.
Border security is national security, Mark Morgan, a former acting commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, tells the Arizona Commerce Authority before Mike Pence takes the stage.
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