--- 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  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  Republican presidential candidate and real estate mogul Donald Trump speaks at the Family Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa on July 18, 2015. Republican presidential candidate and real estate mogul Donald Trump speaks at the Family Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa on July 18, 2015.Nati Harnik—AP  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.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3969554/donald-trump-border-patrol-union/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3969554/donald-trump-border-patrol-union/"},"headline":"Border Patrol Union Dumps Trump Ahead of His Visit","datePublished":"2015-07-23T14:27:39.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-13T03:56:05.000Z","description":"The presidential hopeful will visit the U.S.-Mexico border on Thursday","url":"https://time.com/3969554/donald-trump-border-patrol-union/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election","Immigration","Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7c87985095ed93b1/69885bc45f570f0ea3b1c892/donald-trump-youre-fired.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tessa Berenson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7c87985095ed93b1/69885bc45f570f0ea3b1c892/donald-trump-youre-fired.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Donald Trump","caption":"Donald Trump","creditText":"Nati Harnik—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3969554/donald-trump-border-patrol-union/","name":"Border Patrol Union Dumps Trump Ahead of His Visit"}}]}] ```