Editorial

Speaker Nancy Pelosi now admits that the mess on the border involves more than “love,” but her laughable fallback is that the “challenge” is all former President Donald Trump’s fault. Somehow, President Biden’s loud reversal of his predecessor’s policies isn’t why nearly as many children crossed last month as in all of 2020. It’s bad, so it’s on Trump.

What Biden “inherited is a broken system at the border,” Pelosi said on ABC this weekend, and had to fix it “in the children’s interest.”

And: The surge that’s forced Biden to call in the Federal Emergency Management Agency for help handling the kids is “a transition from what was wrong before to what is right.” Up is down, black is white and war is peace, she might as well have continued.

Sorry: “Wrong” is encouraging the desperate to make the perilous, illegal journey north. Nothing is “right” about inviting people the government can’t handle to flood in.

Customs and Border Protection is seeing nearly double the tide from a year ago and already holds a record high of 4,200 kids as of Sunday, up 31 percent in a week.

Children now spend an average of 107 hours in cramped quarters critics deride as “jail-like.” And Team Biden won’t let reporters see the facilities. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki promises she’ll arrange for media to visit but refuses to set a date.

Meanwhile, Biden is headed to Pennsylvania and Georgia on a “Hope Is Here” tour pumping his $1.9 trillion spending bill, with no plans to visit any border state.

He probably doesn’t want to see his policies’ impact. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy just went down and reports it’s not only Central Americans heeding Biden’s invitation but also illegal migrants from Iran, Yemen, Sri Lanka, China and other countries, including suspected terrorists.

Terrorists? Don’t be surprised if that prompts Pelosi to next say it must be all President George W. Bush’s fault.