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The legal wrangling this week over a Texas law that would grant state and local authorities the ability to arrest and deport people who’ve illegally crossed the border is illustrative of a simple fact: Under the Biden administration, illegal border crossings have skyrocketed.
As soon as he took office, President Joe Biden unraveled the majority of the measures former President Donald Trump had put in place to curb encounters at the U.S.-Mexico border. That has left border states like Texas struggling to handle the burdens that come with the flood of migrants entering the country illegally.
While border enforcement and deportations fall under federal jurisdiction, Texas officials have argued that Biden’s failures have left them with no other choice. They say the law is necessary to combat the “deadly consequences of the federal government’s inability or unwillingness to protect the border.”
It’s not just Texas and other border states that are pleading for more help. Cities around America are struggling to keep up with migrants who are seeking refuge in large numbers.
Chicago, for instance, has started to evict migrants, thousands of whom are in city-run shelters. New York, Denver and other cities are in similar situations.
And voters want solutions.
