Bill Clinton pays tribute to former adviser Jordan

An emotional former President Bill Clinton eulogized his longtime friend and adviser Vernon Jordan at a Tuesday memorial service, saying that in his civil rights work, in politics and in business, he was always in “the freedom business.”

Jordan had an uncanny ability to read people — and to inspire them, Clinton said. “Vernon Jordan was worthy of our love and admiration because he was a man in full,” Clinton said.

The Border Patrol has advised the White House about the growing immigration crisis at the U.S. border, but the Biden administration has not responded or escalated efforts to alleviate the problem, according to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who toured his state line by helicopter Tuesday.

“The Biden administration continues to basically refuse to even admit the involvement and the necessity of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) being involved in the process,” the Republican governor said on Fox News’ “America Reports.” “It is ICE that is involved in that detention process. It is ICE that has its detention facilities overrun. It is ICE that needs to expand those facilities because of the people coming across the border illegally.”

Abbott pointed to the growing numbers of people coming in as evidence that a crisis is at hand, and said it’s still early in the year and the emergency will get much worse.

“If you look at the Rio Grande

Valley region, the number of people