A blunt but clarifying tactic proved a turning point in the Biden administration's immigration crisis. Border-state governors argued that national leaders were dismissing the costs of illegal crossings as a regional nuisance instead of a national emergency-and began transporting migrants to Democrat-led cities far from the border. Once the crisis was no longer confined to overwhelmed border states, political leaders elsewhere could no longer ignore it and started pressing the Biden administration to stem the illegal migrant flow. Whatever one thinks of the tactic, the political logic was...
