The cost of the migrant crisis on states will balloon in the coming months and years, meaning Congress may have to step in with additional funding for a problem they and the president so far refuse to fix. States and cities have poured hundreds of millions of dollars into keeping migrants in shelters, fed, and given medical treatment, and the costs aren’t going away anytime soon. 

Since the beginning of the Biden administration, nearly 10 million migrants have crossed the southern border into America after being either paroled or escaping border guards altogether. Red states like Texas and Florida began shipping some of those migrants to blue cities and states up north that typically don’t have to deal with such problems.