Mayor: Rise in immigrant families not a crisis yet

A Texas mayor says that the rise in families seeking to cross the border hasn’t become a crisis ­– yet.

{mosads}“We’re doing our efforts down here at the border to make sure it doesn’t turn into a crisis,” Jim Darling, the mayor of McAllen, Texas, said on ABC’s “This Week.”

President Obama is reportedly set to ask for an extra $2 billion to deal with border issues, and told the ABC show that families shouldn’t expect that their unaccompanied children couldn’t be sent back.

Darling said he hoped that extra funding would be helpful. Even as he said the border issue wasn’t a crisis, Darling also said that his government would spend more than $500,000 this year to deal with those trying to cross the border.

“It’s not fair to our taxpayers. It’s not fair to the charities that have to front those monies when really this is a federal situation,” Darling said.