Democrats failure to fund border security costing cities big bucks

Washington Examiner:

Mayors representing cities located on or near the U.S.-Mexico border expect to blow through $30 million Congress allocated in a recent supplemental funding bill for humanitarian costs associated with record-high numbers of migrant families arriving at the border.

“We were all actively involved in lobbying our congressional delegates to see the supplemental funding take place. However, $30 million is really going to be reimbursing communities like mine, pennies on the dollar for the supplies and the manpower and resources that we’ve been asked to donate to this crisis in our country,” said John Giles, mayor of Mesa, Arizona, during a press conference Thursday afternoon.

Six mayors from cities in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona detailed the costs their communities have incurred in that time and knocked lawmakers for the delay it took for short-term assistance. The bipartisan group spoke after touring Customs and Border Protection facilities with acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan.

“We all recognize that this emergency aid is for this fiscal year only and that it does not begin to meet the real needs that exist at either state, federal, or local levels,” said Bryan Barnett, a mayor from Michigan who serves as president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors. “We call on Congress to directly allocate the funding needed by local communities and nongovernmental organizations to respond to those humanitarian crises that we face on our southern border.”

In west Arizona, more than 60,000 people have been apprehended in the region since the start of the 2019 fiscal year in October, making it the third-busiest for border crossings of all nine Border Patrol regions. Mayor Douglas Nicholls said the city has been in a state of emergency for three months because it cannot financially or physically keep up with the number of people being released from federal custody and in need of assistance.
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Voters in these border cities make a mistake if they support Democrats in Congress who have no real interest in dealing with the border crisis they have caused by their refusal to deal with the broken asylum system.  Democrats are alienating voters on the border who are having to deal with the fallout from their bad policies.