This is not a laughing matter

 Washington Examiner:

Kamala Harris given lead role over border by President Biden

Kamala Harris has exhibited no competence on border security and laughed when she was asked if she would be going to the border. 

Salena Zito has reported that even Democrats in the border area have little confidence that the Biden-Harris administration will deal with the problem.

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.

“I hate that it's become so politicized, because once that happens, it's going to be that much more than trying to get anything done,” said a frustrated Lozano, who ran for mayor in 2018 on a platform of rebuilding infrastructure and attracting new economic development. He was elected overwhelmingly by the voters of the Southwest Texas border town.

The office itself is nonpartisan, but he is a Democrat.

“I don't have the luxury of waiting for the Biden administration to make the decision," he tells me. "This is real time. As mayor, I need to respond in real time, immediately, when I get these items that come across my desk ... I have to protect my constituents.” Lozano says he finds himself hard-pressed to protect his town's treasures and blames, in part, a tone-deaf presidential administration that seems oblivious to a growing humanitarian and public safety problem.

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Lozano believes that the growing chaos and insecurity is a major reason why the Rio Grande Valley and all of South Texas, a Hispanic and Democratic political bastion for decades, abruptly shifted in Trump's direction in the 2020 election.

Del Rio is the county seat of Val Verde County, about 400 miles southeast of El Paso, where the river finally turns its course to the southeast and toward the Gulf of Mexico. Trump flipped the majority-Hispanic border county, winning it by 10 points. Both Hillary Clinton (by 8 points) and Barack Obama (by 6 points) had carried Val Verde comfortably, but evidently, the voters care more about border security than Democrats calculated.

Indeed, the story all along the Texas border was similar, from El Paso in the west to Brownsville in the east. Every county along the border shifted toward Trump between 2016 and 2020. The largest counties in South Texas delivered results 19, 23, 28, and 55 points more Republican than in the prior presidential election.

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There is more.  There is growing frustration with the Biden position by voters along the Rio Grande.