The Biden administration’s reaction to the recent surge on our southern border has left many Americans doubting the ability of the federal government to successfully solve the immigration stalemate. The administration apparently did not anticipate how public comments from the Biden camp during the 2020 presidential campaign would encourage migrants in poorer sections of Mexico and Central America, many of them children, to flock to our southern border. Surges like the current one place an incredible and unfair burden on state resources. ADVERTISEMENT Republican members of Congress and certain Republican state officials have publicly condemned the administration’s response to the present border crisis. To be sure some of the criticism is warranted but according to the Biden administration the blame rightly belongs to the previous administration for their failure to cooperate during the presidential transition. Whoever is to blame, the finger pointing has to stop. Rather than gloat about the president's perceived failure, the American public would be better served if Republicans began work with Democrats to find common ground and pass comprehensive immigration legislation.