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Biden says answer to border chaos is more money during first visit

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President Biden took a walk Sunday along the border wall in El Paso, Texas, getting his first up-close look at the boundary that has bedeviled his administration with two years of unprecedented chaos and saying the solution is more money.

Accompanied by Border Patrol agents, Mr. Biden reviewed the 18-foot barrier that separates the U.S. from Mexico — a project begun in the 1990s but which gained prominence under his predecessor, former President Trump.

Mr. Biden also visited a border crossing in El Paso, watching officers train on how to sniff out drugs or illegal immigrants being driven into the U.