El Paso’s migrant state of emergency a taste of what nation faces as Biden shrugs at border crisis

Oscar Leeser, the Democratic mayor of El Paso, has bent over backward not to “embarrass” the head of his party, President Joe Biden. 

As migrants poured across the border, unmetered and unvetted, he quietly grappled with the strain on the city’s resources. He provided the shelter and food the federal government wouldn’t. He struck private deals with Mayor Eric Adams to alleviate the crush, busing some people to New York. 

Even as the City Council begged him to point out what was happening, he refused. He insisted he’d been told by the Biden administration that if he was patient, they would help. This went on for months.

On Saturday, Leeser’s patience finally broke.

He declared a state of emergency, admitting what had been obvious for nearly two years: The border is out of control, and President Biden isn’t doing anything about it.

Actually, it’s even worse than that. Biden actively has punished Democrats like Leeser and Adams, giving them hardly any aid, refusing to acknowledge what’s happening, deflecting any blame. In other words, he gaslighted them. An astounding 53,000 people crossed the border into El Paso in October alone. Asked if he would visit the border, Biden said “there are more important things going on.” 

Adams reached his breaking point a week before Leeser, imploring, “No one has helped us. No one. We have not gotten a dime from anyone. That has to stop. We need help.”

Leeser: “We have hundreds and hundreds on the street and that’s not the way we treat our people.”

Meanwhile, White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre said on Thursday: “What Americans should know is that the president has done the work to deal with what we’re seeing at the border since day one” — a complete and total lie.

She threw in a few weak jabs at the usual suspects — ex-President Donald Trump, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — which no one is buying. How can Republicans be to blame for a border that Biden has controlled for two years? Biden JUST. DOESN’T. CARE.

In two days the health directive used to turn back some border-crossers, Title 42, will lapse. In El Paso, it’s expected that 6,000 will cross per day, double what it has been. Biden will be in Delaware, reminiscing about the time he invented Christmas and his uncle won the Nobel Peace Prize. And nothing will be done to actually enforce our immigration laws. The taxpayers of El Paso and New York City will shoulder a burden for which no one voted. 

Oscar Leeser has declared a state of emergency for his city. Who will declare one for the nation?