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Border surge fizzled; crossings see decline
Border surge fizzled; crossings see decline

Border surge fizzled; crossings see decline

The border-surge narrative dictated earlier this month fell flat, but why? A catastrophe in the making was what we were told by those supposedly in the know. The feds sent active-duty troops down here to shore up Border Patrol, Texas Governor Greg Abbott sent National Guard troops to the RGV, but the wave never developed.Here were some of the headlines from earlier this month: “Biden sends troops to the U.S.Mexico border before Title 42 ends.” (Source: LA Times, May 3.)The lead paragraph to that story read: “The Biden administration plans to send 1,500 active-duty soldiers to the U.S.-Mexico border for ...

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