President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden arrived in Uvalde, Texas, on Sunday to grieve with the community after 19 children and two teachers were killed in a school shooting there last week.

The Bidens are expected to pay their respects at the memorial site at Robb Elementary School before attending mass at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church.

They will then visit with survivors, families of the victims and first responders, according to the White House.

Twenty-one people, including 19 third- and fourth-graders, were killed Tuesday after an 18-year-old gunman, Salvador Ramos, used an assault-style rifle to open fire on two connected classrooms at Robb Elementary, according to authorities.

PHOTO: President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden step off Air Force One upon arrival at Kelly Field in San Antonio, Texas, May 29, 2022.

President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden step off Air Force One upon arrival at Kelly Field in San Antonio, Texas, May 29, 2022.

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“I’d hoped, when I became president, I would not have to do this again,” President Biden said on Tuesday as he addressed the nation following the shooting. “Another massacre. Uvalde, Texas. An elementary school. Beautiful, second-, third-, fourth-graders,” he said.

Sunday’s visit to Uvalde is the second trip the president has taken in two weeks to comfort a grief-stricken community following a mass shooting.

On May 17, Biden traveled to Buffalo, New York, to meet with the families of the victims of the Tops supermarket shooting, which is being investigated against a hate crime. Ten people, all of whom were Black, were killed on May 15.

PHOTO: President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden arrive at JASA-Kelly Airfield before visiting Robb Elementary School to pay their respects to the victims of the mass shooting in San Antonio, Texas, May 29, 2022.

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden arrive at JASA-Kelly Airfield before visiting Robb Elementary School to pay their respects to the victims of the mass shooting in San Antonio, Texas, May 29, 2022.

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PHOTO: People gather at Robb Elementary School, the scene of a mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, May 25, 2022.

People gather at Robb Elementary School, the scene of a mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, May 25, 2022.

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Biden addressed both the the Uvalde and Buffalo shootings on Saturday during his commencement speak at the University of Delaware, his alma mater.

“Too much violence. Too much fear. Too much grief,” he said, calling on Americans to work together to make the country safer. “Let’s be clear: Evil came to that elementary school classroom in Texas, to that grocery store in New York, to far too many places where innocents have died.”



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