Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) said the increasing number of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border is “not a crisis yet” but will be “very soon.” In an interview with Fox News, Cuellar said that more and more people are streaming to the border, and coupled with the COVID-19 pandemic, serious problems may emerge. “The snapshot right now—is it a crisis? No. Is it getting there? Yes,” he said. “You add COVID-19 on top of that. You add a lot of the border communities are not getting the vaccines fast enough. The fact they aren’t letting Mexican legal visa holders come across, but they’re letting undocumented people in, that does cause a concern to me and a lot of my border community leaders down there. So yes, and if you look at the Border Patrol, they’re operating at 25 percent.” Cuellar represents Texas’s 28th Congressional District, of which portions lie along the …
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