Donald Trump to trek US-Mexico line

July 22, 2015 19:18

Donald Trump will head to the US-Mexico border on Thursday, traveling to Laredo, Texas to tour the border with a group of U.S. border patrol agents.

Trump has hammered illegal immigration in interviews and stump speeches since he launched his Republican presidential campaign, when he referred broadly to Mexican immigrants as criminals and rapists.

Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski confirmed to CNN on Wednesday morning that Trump will head to the border on Thursday.

The trip comes after a local chapter of the National Border Patrol Council, the agency's union, invited Trump earlier this month to tour one of the most active parts of the border with the agents who work there.

Hector Garza, the president of the chapter, told CNN earlier this month that he wanted "to give Donald Trump a state of the border" and a "boots on the ground perspective."

Garza, a border patrol agent, said his invitation was not an endorsement of Trump's presidential run, saying that his group regularly invites politicians -- including previous tours with GOP Reps. Jason Chaffetz of Utah and Blake Farenthold of Texas.

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