Border Patrol union chief says Biden's visit was a waste of time

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74% : Immigrants wade across the Rio Grande into El Paso, Texas on January 08, 2023 from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on the same day as Biden's visitBiden was making his first visit to the southern border since becoming president.
62% : It was his first visit to the southern border since becoming president.
52% :'The only people that he met with in the in the Border Patrol were upper level management,' he said.
52% : It also emerged that law enforcement agents conducted a sweep of the city last week, taking migrants off the street, in what opponents said was an effort to give Biden a 'sanitized' tour.
43% : Judd said the president would have learned little about the problems facing Border Patrol from visiting a port of entry, where tightly controlled lines of people wait with their identity cards or passports.
33% :Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council, slammed President Joe Biden's visit to the southern border on Sunday, saying he did not get a full picture of the crisisImmigrants sleep on the sidewalk near a migrant shelter on January 9, 2023, a day after the president's visit.

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