Migrant pleas, border realities confront President Biden in El Paso January 10, 2023By Maria-Pia Chin OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News In this first trip to the border since he took office, President Joe Biden, who is Catholic, sought to “assess border enforcement operations” and talk to those helping to manage “the historic number of migrants fleeing political oppression and gang violence in Venezuela, Haiti, Nicaragua and Cuba,” according to the White House.