Congressman Cuellar exposes Biden's border shell game

 Ed Morrissey:

Well, we assumed. Why else would a House Democrat publicly blast a Democratic president for border-security and humanitarian issues? The New York Times reports that while some of the facilities at the border have become less crowded, it’s because they’ve transferred illegally-entering children to other facilities — which are almost at capacity as well:

Biden administration officials have insisted that they have gotten better control of a surge of migrant children that has swamped detention centers at the U.S.-Mexico border.

But documents obtained by The New York Times indicate that the problem has moved to other facilities, like convention centers in Dallas, San Diego and Long Beach, Calif., which are nearing capacity as funds for more space are scarce. …

In all, over the past week, more than 21,000 children were living in shelters under government care, leaving the shelters around 80 percent full. A shelter at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas has a capacity of 2,270 — and a caseload of 1,990. The San Diego Convention Center’s 1,450 beds are all taken. The Freeman Coliseum in San Antonio is 90 children away from its 2,100 limit and announced on Friday it would stop taking in migrant children after this month. The Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center is similarly full, according to the document.

Not only are they running out of space, they’re running out of money, too:

According to the document, a $366 million shortfall hits this month “and grows quickly through July.” Officials project the cost for the entire 2021 fiscal year could be higher than $8 billion.

This might be good news if the flow over the border had stopped, or even slowed down significantly. Had the Biden administration finished the border wall before signaling a more liberal approach to asylum and shelter, perhaps the record-shattering spike might never have taken place. However, not only has the wave of migration not slowed down, officials expect it to increase — and they’re expanding their use of hotels in anticipation....

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The Biden border incompetence appears boundless and there are few Democrats like Cuellar with the courage to speak truth to power.  Border Democrats are starting to speak out some which tells you that border citizens are getting fed up with Biden's failed policies which are wreaking havoc on their communities with border counties declaring emergencies.