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Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley is visiting the southern border next week, becoming the first announced presidential candidate to survey the migrant crisis first-hand.
While Donald Trump has made several trips to visit the wall between the U.S. and Mexico, he has not yet done so in his capacity as a presidential candidate.
Haley, joined by Republican Texas Rep. Tony Gonzales, will travel to southern Texas on April 3 and make stops between San Antonio in the northwest tip of the state down to Eagle Pass, some of the areas that have seen the heaviest migrant traffic in recent years.
Presidential hopeful Nikki Haley will become the first candidate to visit the southern border with a trip next week including several stops between El Paso and Eagle Pass, Texas
Migrants gather at a crossing into El Paso, Texas, as seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Dec. 20, 2022.
The daughter of Indian immigrants, Haley's proposal to deal with the prevailing crisis at the southern border includes scrapping new funding to bolster IRS staffing to 87,000 total and instead allocating those appropriations for 25,000 new Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
The plan would require businesses to use a program called E-Verify, used during the hiring process to authenticate whether a worker is a U.S.
