Democrats blast Biden over looming border surge

Democrats lashed out at administration officials Thursday, saying there’s no indication that Homeland Security is ready to handle the massive surge of illegal immigrants that experts say is coming.

Two weeks of appearances by Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and other department experts have done little to quell those fears.

“Is the administration prepared?” Sen. Jon Ossoff, Georgia Democrat, demanded of the experts at a hearing of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

“We are doing prudent planning, we are using the planning to identify the resource requirements that would be...