President Biden and former President Trump will be at the Texas border Thursday. (Getty Images)
Therefore, there will be zero risk of any Border Patrol facility overcrowding for Biden's visit.
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection source told Fox News that there were only 318 encounters in the Rio Grande Valley sector on Sunday.
Meanwhile, sectors in blue states are very busy. The San Diego and Tucson sectors are both getting 1,000-2,000 illegal crossings daily.
Eagle Pass, where Trump will be visiting, has been the center of an ongoing stand-off and court battle between Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and the Biden administration. Texas National Guard troops were ordered to deny access by federal Border Patrol agents to Shelby Park, which has seen a surge in illegal crossings, and erected razor wire to deter migrants.
Biden’s last visit to the border was in El Paso after a huge surge of illegal crossings where the streets had been cleared of migrant camps and the visit was highly sanitized. Biden did not see or talk to a single migrant, nor did he visit a Border Patrol station, opting for a CBP port of entry instead, where only lawful crossings occur.
Asked if Biden plans to meet with migrants this time given the criticism that he didn't last time, Jean-Pierre said she had no information yet.
Migrants wait to be processed by U.S. Border Patrol agents after crossing the Rio Grande from Mexico on Sept. 30, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas. (John Moore/Getty Images)
"Republicans should get out of the way, not politicize this. This is an issue that the American people, majority of American people, care about," she added.
The press secretary said Biden is "going to see for himself to see what they've been doing on the ground. Remember, these Border Patrol agents have been doing everything that they can to secure the border with the resources that they have. They need more. They need more."
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The White House billed the Senate bipartisan border bill as "the toughest and fairest set of reforms to secure the border in decades," saying it provides funding needed for additional U.S. border agents, more asylum officers, fentanyl detection technology and more.
Fox News' Bill Melugin contributed to this report.
Danielle Wallace is a reporter for Fox News Digital covering politics, crime, police and more. Story tips can be sent to danielle.wallace@fox.com and on Twitter: @danimwallace.
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