But it turns out that the Democratic position (and that of Senate Republicans) was correct.

Sorry, but I have reject this and the preceding paragraphs before it as being factually incomplete, if not altogether incorrect.

Biden’s problem on the borders were never entirely about resources. He and his party created incentives for people to rush the border, and rush the border they did. Absent those incentives we see a drastic reduction in the number of contacts at the southern border.

You have it exactly backwards: had the GOP passed that bill it would have codified thousands of “asylees” at the border per day…incentivizing tens of thousands more to head north in the hopes that they had won the lottery for that particular day. Passing that legislation would have also given the democrats a tool to continually raise the number by amending the statute as a part of every reconciliation bill - a filibuster proof way to a back door open border border policy in perpetuity.

We dodged a bullet.