Piles of trash and miles of fencing will greet President Joe Biden when he arrives in Brownsville, Texas, on Thursday for the second border visit of his presidency. But migrants will be missing.
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Piles of trash and miles of fencing will greet President
Joe Biden when he arrives in Brownsville,
Texas, on Thursday for the second border visit of his presidency.
What will be missing are illegal migrants crossing the border.
At Camp Monument, once a bustling center run by U.S. Custom and Border Patrol to process migrants who illegally entered the country in Brownsville, there were few signs of activity on Wednesday.
Rows of fencing, entwined with concertina wire, shone in the hot Texas sun. The 12-foot-tall wire fence panels are laced with a 3-foot looping layer of concertina wire in order prevent migrants from trying to climbing it. Mexico is visible just across the Rio Grande.
But there were no signs of anyone trying to make the short crossing over to the United States. Piles of trash lined the river banks, however, left over from six months ago when Brownsville was a major migration hot spot, seeing up to 10,000 crossings a day.