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Key Democrats Flip on Biden Border Crisis


Migrant surge now straining their blue state resources. A BY MARISA HERMAN


growing number of Democrat leaders nation- wide have begun sound- ing a more conservative


note amid the worsening crisis at the southern border — where a record 302,000 illegal immigrants crossed into the U.S. in December. But experts say the surprising reassessment is unlikely to lead to meaningful policy reforms. Several frontline states, including


Texas, have been transporting the migrants overwhelming their border towns to Democrat-led states and the


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so-called “sanctuary cities” that have embraced President Joe Biden’s pro- gressive immigration policies, which many analysts blame for the current chaos. But many of these liberal locales


are feeling the strain on their fi nanc- es and resources by the migrants, and offi cials are suddenly looking to turn back the arrivals. Houston-based GOP political


analyst Vlad Davidiuk said Demo- crats are only beginning to turn their attention to the “Biden border cri- sis” because the issue is no longer confi ned to the mostly Republican


border states, where the infl ux of migrants “would help not only desta- bilize state and local government but would be instrumental in tipping the electoral balance in the Democrats’ favor by increasing the numbers of potential voters.” Now that the “protected sanc-


tuary city bubbles” have been “pierced” and Democrat-led cities are “subject to the chaos they them- selves unleashed,” Davidiuk said the “increasingly open criticism” of Biden is “sending a strong signal that Democrats may well be fl ipping on border security/illegal immigration.”


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