President Joe Biden still won’t admit that his own policies have created a self-inflicted emergency on the southern border. But the Democratic mayor of Washington, D.C., is now begging the Biden administration for help with what she is calling a “humanitarian crisis” — one that stems directly from Biden’s refusal to take illegal immigration seriously.
In a letter dated July 19, the district’s Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency director, Dr. Christopher Rodriguez, asked Biden’s Defense Department to authorize the activation of the D.C. National Guard to help prevent “a prolonged humanitarian crisis in the nation’s capital.”
And what exactly is causing this humanitarian crisis? Rodriguez complains that in the past four months, the governors of Arizona and Texas have bused to Washington a total of 4,000 illegal border crossers who were originally released by Biden into the border regions of their states.
Four thousand migrants over four months — that is all it took to “overwhelm” the district’s homeless services system, according to Rodriguez. So you can imagine what it’s like for the small border towns in Arizona and Texas, which had more than 370,000 migrants released into their communities during that same four-month time frame.
That’s more than 90,000 per month, or 3,000 per day. All told, Biden has dumped more than 1.3 million migrants into the United States since he became president, the vast majority of whom were discharged into small rural communities that lack the capacity to house or feed them. Just last month, three Texas counties along the border were forced to declare states of emergency so they could qualify for additional resources to battle what they’re calling an “unprecedented” surge in migration.
So it makes perfect sense that Republican governors are trying to share the burden of Biden’s border crisis. The only real question is why the Biden administration prefers to inflict this disaster on small towns in Arizona and Texas instead of such big cities as Washington and New York City, which have declared themselves “sanctuary cities” for illegal immigrants.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre had no real answer. “There is a process in place for managing migrants at the border,” she said, complaining that Republican governors “meddling in the process and using migrants as a political pawn is just wrong.”
This is exactly why it is so important for Biden and his press secretary to go visit the southern border — because if they actually went there, they would see that whatever “process” there once was for managing migrants at the border has broken down. The communities there feel ignored and abandoned by Biden.
“Nobody has reached out to me or to the city,” Rolando Salinas, the mayor of Eagle Pass, Texas, told the Washington Examiner. “I haven’t heard from anyone. … Thousands of people are crossing daily, and it doesn’t stop. And it seems the federal government does not care that we are overrun with people in our community. As a lifelong Democrat, I have to say it’s so disappointing to not get support from this administration.”
Salinas shouldn’t feel singled out — Biden has so far equally ignored Washington’s request to activate the guard. Asked Thursday whether Biden would grant the request, Jean-Pierre directed questions to the Pentagon, which, as of Friday, would only say it had received the letter and couldn’t comment on when a final decision would be made.
In the meantime, each day Biden’s Defense Department spends making a decision, thousands more migrants are being apprehended, processed, and released into small-town Arizona and Texas. Biden very clearly doesn’t care about those communities. And so far, it appears, he cannot even be bothered to care about his own.
