Border March Madness

“Oh, it’s a crisis.”  Senator Joe Manchin may represent a hard scrabble state far from the southwest border with Mexico, but the red state Democrat knows a political catastrophe when he sees one.
The United States is facing a tidal wave of illegal immigrants encouraged by “the migrant president,” Joe Biden.  Some are even sporting crisp white T-shirts that read, “Biden, Please let us in!”  According to the new administration, border officials have had 397,000 encounters with migrants in the first fiscal quarter of 2021, 25% higher than the same period a year ago.  The 71,000 migrants previously camped out in Mexico under Trump&rsq ...