Bruno Lozano, the mayor of Del Rio, Texas, tells me by phone that the humanitarian crisis in his border town is real, alarming, and growing rapidly. The blind eye that the Biden administration has turned toward his and other border towns, he says, represents an untenable approach.

His political affiliation as a Democrat does not prevent him from venting his frustration about the fact that the chaotic, mass border invasion has become a left-right political football. No one is treating it like the national crisis Lozano believes it is becoming.