Democratic mayor of Texas border city feels ‘ignored’ by Biden: ‘Unfair, unethical’
Brady Knox
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Frustration over the Biden administration’s handling of the border crisis has been growing bipartisan, with a Democratic mayor of a Texan city on the border with Mexico expressing his frustration with President Joe Biden.
Eagle Pass Mayor Rolando Salinas complained to CNN that his city was getting “slammed” with 2,000 to 3,000 immigrants a day, adding that the city felt abandoned by the government.
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“It’s just an unfair, unethical situation, what’s going on here in Eagle Pass,” Salinas said. “We feel ignored by the federal government.”
Salinas’s complaint comes as a growing number of Democratic leaders from all over the country voice their frustration with Biden’s border policy.
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Recently, mayors of large Democratic cities, such as New York City, Washington, and Chicago, have had to deal with busloads of immigrants being sent to their cities by Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX). New York City Mayor Eric Adams has perhaps been the most vocal, often targeting the Biden administration directly.
“And I’m not only talking about New York,” Adams said earlier this week. “Chicago, Los Angeles, El Paso, Brownsville, all of these cities, Houston. You know, cities should not be handling national problems. And so I don’t have the real understanding of — I’m hoping that our national leaders understand that becomes a real immigration reform, a decompression strategy, pick up the price tag of this issue, and allow people to work. I sound like almost a broken record, it’s the same thing! People should be allowed to work in this country.”