El Paso Bridge Rush Is What Losing ‘Operational Control’ Of Our Border Looks Like

Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has spent months hammering the Biden administration over its loss of operational control at the southern border shared with Mexico. Last week, scenes at the Paso Del Norte bridge linking Mexico to El Paso, Texas, offered a blunt illustration of American leaders failing to secure the nation’s southern boundary.

On March 12, more than 1,000 migrants stormed the U.S. checkpoint forcing Customs and Border Protection to deploy crowd control measures to contain the chaos. According to a local NBC affiliate, the stampede, primarily made up of Venezuelans, was triggered by false rumors U.S. officials were allowing entry to families.

“Texans are furious about the lawlessness caused by President Biden’s open border policies,” said Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott. “Texas has done more than any state ever to secure our border.”

Governor Abbott, however, is part of the problem by declaring an invasion on the southern border while refusing to take the necessary steps to stem the tide of said invasion. In other words, the Texas governor is engaged in performative theater while doing nothing to solve the border crisis.

Last summer, Federalist Senior Editor John Davidson outlined how Texas counties are struggling to cope with the influx of unchecked migration on their doorstep.

“County officials of course can’t do anything about illegal immigration on their own, but their argument is that Abbott, as governor of Texas, can,” Davidson wrote. “They cite Article I, Section 10, Clause 3 of