Administration looks other way on border crisis

Border states like Texas are taking matters into their own hands.

If the numbers coming across our southern border in the past year aren’t staggering, then it’s difficult to know what is. As we move into the spring season, illegal crossings are expected to increase, and Joe Biden’s administration seems to has little concern about it.
    While the numbers can be jumbled a lot of ways and distorted with words like “encounters” and “illegals,” there’s no question that illegal crossings by people who have not gone through the legal immigration process is growing. And, President Biden and his administration just look the other way.
        They are in Washington D.C. (and Delaware) after all, far away from  the issues that people living in the border states are dealing with every day. How would we deal with it if a couple hundred people came into the community all at once? What about housing and health care? What about COVID?
        U.S. Customs and Border Patrol data shows U.S. authorities stopped 178,840 unauthorized migrants at the southern border in December alone, a 2% increase over the previous month.  
    However, some of our southern states are starting to deal with things on their own. Texas officials announced plans late last year they are allocating their own funds to build a wall along a portion of their border, after Biden stopped construction of the border wall Trump started.
    This week, a bus with dozens of migrants from Texas arrived in D.C. a few blocks from the Capitol. It’s Gov. Greg Abbott’s turn-about-is-fair-play statement. His legal authority to deal with immigration as a state may be in question, but it may open some eyes in D.C.
     Immigration is supposed to be a federal issue, yet Democrats turn the other way. Where is the money supposed to come from to deal with the influx especially in this time of inflation? I think we all know where.

 

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