| President Joe Biden will visit El Paso this weekend, his first visit to the U.S.-Mexico border as president. The visit comes as a record surge of migrants have come to the border, where arrests topped more than 2 million for the first time last year. Republicans have hammered Biden over the issue, with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott among the loudest critics. Biden is pitching his framework for comprehensive reform to the nation's immigration system with the trip. "It's clear that immigration is a political issue that extreme Republicans are always going to run on," Biden said. "But now they have a choice. They can keep using immigration to try to score political points or they can help solve the problem." Biden also announced a plan to accept 30,000 migrants from Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba and Haiti each month, which was quickly panned by U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul of Austin, who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Committee. "This measure barely scratches the surface to address the massive migrant flows crossing into the U.S.," he tweeted. Read the full story here. | 
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