DHS lies, Laredo sues

Somebody has to pay for treating and housing illegals. Laredo figures the federal government caused the problem, so it should pay. 

Biden administration: Those pesky cities and states need to do as they are told.

From Hot Air

What is a county on the southern border to do when it finds itself overwhelmed by Biden’s border crisis? In the case of Webb County, Texas, the county judge signs a disaster declaration and the biggest city in the county, Laredo, files a lawsuit in hopes of getting a temporary restraining order. The goal is to stop the influx of illegal migrants coming into the county. Homeland Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Acting Commissioner Troy Miller, and Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott are all named in the lawsuit.

Laredo has been under the gun during the current border crisis. A prime concern about the number of migrants being dumped into the county, and Laredo specifically, is the spread of the coronavirus. Earlier this month, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said it would stop bussing illegal migrants apprehended in the Rio Grande Valley to Laredo due to concerns about a dangerous spike in cases. Laredo Mayor Pete Saenz said at the time that the city can’t handle the rise in cases. Rep. Henry Cuellar got involved, as Laredo is his hometown. DHS assured them that it would not send any more illegal migrants to Laredo. There has been an influx of migrant families, mostly from Central American countries, entering the United States through the Rio Grande Valley. NGOs and local medical facilities in Laredo are overburdened.

Well, that was then and this is now. Just a couple of weeks later and DHS has already broken its word. Shocker, I know. It just points to the seriousness of the Biden border crisis. Biden and his minions can say the border is under control and the situation is greatly improved, as border czar Kamala recently said in El Paso, but it isn’t true. The facts say otherwise. DHS and Border Patrol continue to scramble to find places to dump the migrants. Mayor Saenz, an Independent, has had enough.

https://hotair.com/karen-townsend/2021/07/22/dhs-lied-so-laredo-filed-a-lawsuit-county-disaster-declaration-signed-n403881