“For the president to say ‘I’m not going to go to the border, I’ve been there before but I’m going to come and sit down at a round table and get together,’ that’s kind of kicking the can down the road a little bit,” Ingraham said on “Fox and Friends.”

President Barack Obama will be visiting Texas on Wednesday and Thursday, primarily to attend private Democratic fundraisers in Dallas and Austin. His visit will follow an influx of thousands of undocumented adults and children crossing the U.S.-Mexico border that has drawn national scrutiny and, after hearing that he will not be visiting the border, has drawn criticism from conservatives.

“The president is going to Texas, he has time to do fundraisers, that’s fine, he’s raising money for midterms, but Texas is ground zero now for this humanitarian crisis,” Ingraham said. “He is the president of all the states, all 50 states, so he should, while he’s there, give the courtesy to the governor of Texas to actually engage with him on this issue.”

On Monday, Perry declinedan official White House offer to greet the president when he lands at Austin’s airport, saying. “I appreciate the offer to greet you at the Austin-Bergstrom Airport, but a quick handshake on the tarmac will not allow for a thoughtful discussion regarding the humanitarian and national security crises enveloping the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas.” In response, White House Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett invited the governor to a round table discussion on the border situation with local officials and faith leaders.

In response to the invitation, Ingraham is drawing conclusions that what Obama fears is not a talk with Perry, but that the cameras will not catch his good side.

“I think he’s worried about being seen in one of the detention facilities because that could be a photo opp that would blow up in his face and he’s worried about what that would look like, I believe,” Ingraham said. “For the president to confront this face to face would be a startling picture. He doesn’t want that picture our there. So I think that’s a lot of what’s going on here.”