President Biden speaks during a meeting with his Competition Council at the White House on March 5, 2024. Biden announced new economic measures during the meeting. (Nathan Howard/Getty Images)
The CNN report stated, "The Democrats told Biden that he needed to show more of the fire that was on display in a closed-door meeting with governors when Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte handed him a letter demanding more action on the southern border. Biden flashed a smile, according to two of the governors standing there."
"'State of the Union,’ Biden said, teasingly."
With the migrant crisis an issue that voters say is a central concern ahead of the November election, Republican lawmakers are inviting guests to Biden's State of the Union address Thursday evening who place heavy focus on the nation’s broken immigration system.
Migrant encounters at the southern border reached a record monthly high of 302,000 in December. During fiscal 2023, the U.S. saw 2.4 million migrant encounters at the border, which was also an all-time high.
Nearly 7.3 million migrants have illegally crossed the southwest border under Biden's watch, a number greater than the population of 36 individual states, a Fox News analysis found last month.
Volunteers provide migrants with dry firewood at a makeshift camp near Jacumba Hot Springs, California, on Feb. 23, 2024. (Qian Weizhong/VCG via Getty Images)
Two New York Police Department officers, Ben Kurian and Zunxu Tian, who were attacked by migrants in a January incident near Times Square that drew national attention, will be the guests of Reps. Anthony D’Esposito and Nicole Malliotakis, both New York Republicans, as well as Johnson.
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Valeria Delgado, a student at Chapman University in California who has benefited from the U.S. policy created to protect young migrants brought to the U.S. as children, will be the guest of Rep. Lou Correa, D-Calif.
Fox News' Chris Pandolfo, Joe Schoffstall and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
Jacqui Heinrich currently serves as a White House correspondent for FOX News Channel (FNC). She joined the network in September 2018 and is based out of Washington D.C.
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