Reports: Biden Not Keeping Border Governors in the Loop on the Crisis in Their Communities
While Texas Democrat questions the administration’s depiction of child detention
By Andrew R. Arthur on May 10, 2021
One recent report indicates that the Biden administration is not consulting with state governments most affected by the crisis that is unfolding at the Southwest border, while another suggests that the federal government is playing fast and loose with its depiction of the conditions of confinement of migrant children apprehended there. Both reveal that politics is worsening an already a bad situation.
On May 6, RealClearPolitics (RCP) detailed complaints from governors Greg Abbott (R) of Texas and Doug Ducey (R) of Arizona about the Biden team’s failure to communicate with them on the federal government’s efforts to control the border between their states and Mexico.
That’s a problem, because most illegal migrants apprehended by the Border Patrol this year have been picked up in Texas and Arizona.
Of the more than 550,000 aliens apprehended at the Southwest border in FY 2021, for example, almost 160,000 (including almost 21,000 unaccompanied alien children and more than 52,000 migrants making the perilous trek as families) were caught in the Border Patrol’s Rio Grande sector.
https://cis.org/Arthur/Reports-Biden-Not-Keeping-Border-Governors-Loop-Crisis-Their-Communities
