--- title: Donald Trump: Border Patrol Union Dumps Trump Ahead of Border Visit description: The union representing border patrol agents has backed out of a tour with Donald Trump when he visits the U.S.-Mexico border Thursday. canonical: https://time.com/3969554/donald-trump-border-patrol-union/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-23T14:27:39.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T03:56:05.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: Border Patrol Union Dumps Trump Ahead of Visit og:description: The presidential hopeful will visit the U.S.-Mexico border on Thursday og:url: https://time.com/3969554/donald-trump-border-patrol-union/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7c87985095ed93b1/69885bc45f570f0ea3b1c892/donald-trump-youre-fired.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: Donald Trump og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Border Patrol Union Dumps Trump Ahead of Visit twitter:description: The presidential hopeful will visit the U.S.-Mexico border on Thursday twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7c87985095ed93b1/69885bc45f570f0ea3b1c892/donald-trump-youre-fired.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Border Patrol Union Dumps Trump Ahead of His Visit > Sponsored content. 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Brief is free at time.com/newsletters. ### Sources * TIME Newsletters: [time.com/newsletters](/c/time-nl-dcbrief-2026q3/newsletters?i=8eea7e9f-553d-40ed-b16c-1e9c88b71a07&cr=time-nl-dcbrief-2026q3-v1) ## Video: Trump Attacks Lindsey Graham, Jeb Bush, Hillary Clinton, Other Foes [Watch (HLS stream): Trump Attacks Lindsey Graham, Jeb Bush, Hillary Clinton, Other Foes](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/fecDIF5Q.m3u8) (1:18)  _Published 2015-07-21_  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Updated: Dec 13, 2023 3:56 AM UTCPublished: Jul 23, 2015 2:27 PM UTC  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Updated: Dec 13, 2023 3:56 AM UTCPublished: Jul 23, 2015 2:27 PM UTC The union representing border patrol agents has backed out of a tour with Donald Trump when he visits the U.S.-Mexico border Thursday. “After careful consideration of all the factors involved in this event and communicating with members of the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) at the National level, it has been decided by Local 2455 to pull out of all events involving Donald Trump,” the Laredo, Texas branch of the union [said in a statement](http://local2455.com/news). Trump’s office put out a statement Thursday saying, “Despite the great danger, Mr. Trump is traveling to Laredo, TX to proceed with the visit to the border” and that Local 2455 “\[was\] totally silenced directly from superiors in Washington who do not want people to know how bad it is on the border — every bit as bad as Mr. Trump has been saying.” Trump’s trip to Texas was sure to stir up controversy, as the billionaire real estate mogul and presidential candidate has taken a hard line on immigration since his announcement speech, when he first referred to illegal immigrants as “rapists.” ## Transcript They can talk all they want. I mean, I got a little dose of it. I was coming up and I see your senator, what a stiff, what a stiff. Lindsey Graham. [ LAUGH ] [ APPLAUSE ] By the way, he's registered zero in the polls, zero. He's on television all the time. So this morning, they told me Mr. Trump cuz Bush said my tone's not nice, my tone. I said tone, we need tone. We need enthusiasm. We need tone! It's true. [ APPLAUSE ] But, they said, and actually Hilary Clinton said, I don't like his tone. And I have a lot of respect for Mexico by the way. A lot of people said oh he doesn't like, I love Mexico. And I love the Mexican people. I've had thousands of Mexicans working for me. I sell apartments for millions of dollars to people from Mexico. They love me. They love me. I want people to come into the country, but they have to do it through the legal process [ APPLAUSE ] [ APPLAUSE ] And we can open up the legal process and make it go faster and all of those things. But it has to be a legal process. 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