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Texas Gov. Abbott greets Biden with scathing letter as president visits border: 'Emboldened the cartels'
Sunday's trip marked president's first visit to border since taking office
FOX News| Bradford Betz
January 9, 2023
As President Joe Biden arrived in Texas on Sunday for his first trip to the U.S.-Mexico border since taking office, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott hand-delivered a scathing letter to the president, criticizing his border policies.
In his letter, Abbott slammed the president's visit as a "$20 billion too little and two years too late." He also noted that the president's tour avoids areas where mass illegal immigration occurs "and sidesteps the thousands of angry Texas property owners whose lives have been destroyed by your border policies." Read more
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Biden makes tightly controlled visit to the southern border, his first as president
CNN| Priscilla Alvarez and MJ Lee
January 9, 2023
President Joe Biden visited the US-Mexico border on Sunday for the first time as president, but he did not appear to see or meet with migrants, including during a trip to a migrant respite center.
Biden spent several hours in El Paso in his first visit to the southern border as president, following growing outcry and criticism that he had not yet seen the crisis created by the record number of migrants trekking to the border first hand. But that brief visit appeared largely focused on enforcement issues and speaking with border enforcement personnel. Reporters on the ground did not see any migrants at the respite center during the president's visit there, nor along the motorcade routes throughout the afternoon.
Asked to explain the thinking behind having Biden visit this specific center and ultimately not meeting or interacting with any migrants there, a senior administration official told CNN, "There just weren't any at the center when he arrived. Completely coincidental. They haven't had any today." Read more
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The More You Know...
Election results, 2022: State legislative seats that changed party control
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On November 8, 2022 members in 88 of the country's 99 state legislative chambers were up. for election across 46 states. These elections were for 6,278 of the country's 7,386 state legislative seats (85%).
As a result of the election, partisan composition of state legislative seats changed by less than half a percentage point.
- Democrats had a net loss of six seats, representing 0.1% of all state legislative seats.
- Republicans had a net gain of 28 seats, representing 0.4% of all state legislative seats.
- Independents and minor party officeholders had a net loss of 20 seats, representing 0.2% of all state legislative seats.
- One seat in New Hampshire, held by a Democrat, advanced to a redo election scheduled for February 21, 2021.
Of the 46 states that held elections on Nov. 8, Democrats had net gains in 16 states, Republicans had net gains in 21 states, and independent or minor party candidates had net gains in two states. Partisan compositions did not change in seven states. The table below shows the states with the largest gains for each party: Read more
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