LAREDO, Texas – A local border patrol union pulled out of events involving Donald Trump on Thursday as the Republican presidential contender charged ahead with plans to visit the Mexican border to highlight his hardline stance on illegal immigration. Patrol agents had planned to accompany Trump to the border and hold a meeting with him but canceled after consultations with their national union, the National Border Patrol Council, said Hector Garza, president of Local 2455. The Trump campaign said in a statement he would go to the border anyway in the afternoon, “despite the great danger,” and blamed the snub on the union’s superiors “who do not want people to know how bad it is on the border – every bit as bad as Mr.