The surge in illegal immigrants crossing into the United States from Mexico has been dubbed a crisis by Republicans and some immigration experts, but the mayor of Brownsville, Texas, says his city is not seeing an unprecedented surge. “I don’t feel it’s a crisis for the city of Brownsville right now,” Mayor Trey Mendez, a Democrat, said in a Zoom call with reporters on Monday. Brownsville hugs the border in southeast Texas, sitting across from Matamoros, Mexico. It has a population of around 189,000. The city has seen 156 and 131 border crossers in the previous two days, Mendez said. Those numbers aren’t unusual: in 2019, before former President Donald Trump implemented a program to have asylum seekers wait in Mexico until their claims were heard, Brownsville would see about 400 a day. President Joe Biden revoked that program and other Trump-era immigration orders, which critics say has contributed to …