I guess you didn’t hear about the ‘slow-down’ yesterday, that continues today and for the foreseeable future? Trucks lined up. Juirez shopkeepers upset from the traffic jams. Not a formal shutdown, but accomplishes the same effect.
We only have so many BP folk, a job description that has always been hard to fill because its crappy work locations. Those BP folk who were scanning vehicles are now babysitting infants. The longer and the more babies and mommies BP have to babysit before HHS can get the bleeding heart ‘charities’ that assisted them in getting here, to cough up a pillow and a bed, the longer the port of entry truck lines will get. And the worse traffic will get for Mexican border towns. We can’t pull people out of thin air, although Kirsten has asked for volunteers agency-wide to go work the border. And we shouldn’t be expected to.
My position is to close the border for an hour or two in order to get everyone’s attention in Mexico City. Let them know what can happen if they don’t at least try to get some control over their internal affairs. And my message to the President is making hollow threats weakens his position greatly, something I do not want to see.