The president of United States, Joe Bidendefended this Tuesday his decision not to go to the border with Mexico before the critics of some members of the republican opposition.
The president will visit this Tuesday the facilities of a Taiwanese company that manufactures chips in Arizonaabout 300 kilometers from the border, and has received criticism from some Republicans for not taking advantage of that visit to go to the border.
A journalist from the conservative Fox network asked Biden this Tuesday why he will not go near the border, to which the president replied: “Because more important things are happening.”
In this regard, Biden stressed that the Taiwanese company Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC)which already has a factory in Arizona, “is going to invest billions of dollars” in new facilities in that state.
Specifically, TSMC is scheduled to announce plans to build a second factory in Arizona to manufacture highly advanced microchips.
This second factory represents an increase in TSMC’s investment in Arizona from 12,000 million to 40,000 million dollars, one of the injections of foreign capital in manufacturing in the United States.
Biden was in charge of designing US policy towards Central America, which has a lot to do with migration, when he served as vice president with Barack Obama (2009-2017); but, upon arriving at the White House in January 2021, he delegated that task to the vice president, Kamala Harris.
Since coming to power, Biden has not visited the border.
However, it has faced the increasing arrival of migrants at the border, including many other Central Americans, Venezuelans and Haitians fleeing violence and lack of economic opportunities in their countries.
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