Hours after President Barack Obama defended his decision to visit the border during his Texas visit, former senator Jim DeMint said he cannot trust the president to enforce immigration law.

At a Wednesday news conference Obama said he will not visit the border because he is "not interested in photo-ops," according to Newsmax.com. The president has faced heavy criticism lately from Republicans and Texas officials who claim he is ignoring the recent spike in immigrants, especially children, who have been arrested as they attempt to cross the border, according to the news site.

Obama said there was a way for Republicans and Democrats to find common ground on comprehensive immigration reform, including his proposed $3.7 billion in emergency funding to deal with the border crisis.

But for DeMint, a Republican and president of the Heritage Foundation, Obama's comments are "extraordinarily dishonest."

Right now, the main concern among Republicans for any comprehensive immigration reform is making the border more secure, DeMint said in a Wednesday interview with Fox News' Greta Van Susteren 

However, DeMint said he is hesitant about any such law because "it's hard to trust this president to enforce the law.

"What you see here is the president is trying to make this a fight between him and Congress," the former South Carolina senator said according to the Daily Caller.

Obama's speech is "a small taste of what happens when you start talking about amnesty," DeMint added.

He also took a stab at Obama's 2012 executive order titeld Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which delays deportation of undocumented children who enter the U.S. under certain conditions.

"The real damage that was done by the president's executive order in 2012 and since then we went from 6,500 to 36,000 in 2013," DeMint told Susteren, referring to the number of undocumented children. "This year we anticipate 80,000."

As far as Obama's $3.7 billion is concerned, DeMint said "congress now is considering appropriations for next year.

"He doesn't need an emergency bill right now."