Border crisis creates new risks for Biden

Texas State Sen. Juan “Chuy” Hinojosa, a Democrat who lives in the border town of McAllen, told The Hill the influx of migrants is fast becoming a crisis and that officials there do not have the resources they need to process the migrants or to test them all for COVID-19.

He said the Biden administration’s move to allow people to remain in the country while they await their immigration proceedings — a so-called “catch and release” practice that was banned under Trump — is encouraging migrants to make the dangerous trip, despite pleas from the White House that people stay home.

“It’s gotten worse,” Hinojosa said. “I don’t think, quite frankly, the Biden administration was aware of what’s happening on the ground here, which you can understand because they’re just coming in and trying to get people up to speed with what’s happening, but I don’t think they were aware there were that many coming across. The border patrol is overwhelmed, they’re throwing their hands up because they don’t know what to do.”