It is getting harder for media to ignore Biden's incompetent border policies

 Ed Morrissey:

For the second time in a week, the editorial board of the Washington Post took direct aim at the Biden administration for its utter incoherence. The first excoriated Joe Biden for issuing a new eviction moratorium that he knew was unconstitutional. Yesterday, the editors blasted both Biden and Kamala Harris for their “torrent of words and goals untethered to specific policies and timetables.”

The editors deserve at least one cheer for belatedly noticing this, but their concern seems more about the electoral consequences of this incompetence....

...  The editors recognize the “incoherence” of Biden and Harris on the border and immigration, but mainly in the context of Democrats’ fate in the midterm elections:

However, they have driven a policy whose incoherence has yielded pressure at the border that may cost the Democrats control of one or both houses of Congress in next year’s midterm elections. So far, there is nothing in the administration’s short- or long-term strategizing that is likely to shift that dynamic.

Is that the biggest concern about incoherence on the border, though? The flood of asylum seekers has outstripped our resources to deal with them, even though most of them will almost certainly not qualify under current asylum requirements. As the White House keeps highlighting the spread of the Delta variant of COVID-19, they are transporting these illegal immigrants without testing into various areas of the country. The city government in McAllen, Texas has tested these migrants and found over 1500 out of 7000 positive for COVID-19. If that’s a representative sample of the people emerging from the border facilities, there are much bigger problems than a tough re-elect cycle for the party controlling these policies.

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Defeating Democrats would be the main good news about this screwed up policy.  It is also richly deserved. 

See, also:

"Something is terribly wrong here", Border mayors, doctor sound the alarm on COVID and migrants

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... The Rio Grande City area reports a 900% increase in the number of illegal migrants who tested positive for COVID-19 last month....

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And: 

Washington Post: Biden’s Migration Policy Is ‘Politically Toxic’

And: 

Laredo, TX Mayor Saenz Calls on Biden to ‘Send More Resources’ to Border Towns

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