Obama Heads to Texas With No Plans to Visit Border

*Would Mr. Obama’s visit to the border produce more than mere optics? Or is there something to be gathered by a personal visit with the children in detention? Will the President’s presence at the border help to approve the $3.7 billion in aid he’s asked for?Everything has a political calculation attached to it. VL

By Julie Pace, Associated Press/ABC News

For President Barack Obama, the humanitarian crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border is increasingly becoming a political liability, giving Republicans a fresh opportunity to question his administration’s competence and complicating the debate over the nation’s fractured immigration laws.

Still, Obama is resisting calls to visit the border during his two-day fundraising trip to Texas, where he arrives late Wednesday afternoon. Instead, Obama will hold a meeting hundreds of miles away in Dallas to discuss the crisis with faith leaders and Texas officials, including Republican Gov. Rick Perry.

Obama’s trip comes one day after he asked Congress for $3.7 billion in emergency spending to get more resources to the border.

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