It's not incompetency.
Its a manufactured crisis to benefit the deep state.
They knew what would happen by shutting down all border security and then advertise free healthcare, housing and food to all that walk over the border.
One of the primary goals here is to increase the amount of illegals for when they ram through amnesty. Have 40+ million new "citizens" dependent on the government.
And they'll bus them to all the red states so that they don't even need to rig elections anymore. Texas is going to turn blue because of this, considering they voted 47% for Biden. Isn't going to take much more.
I think our enemy doesn't care about optics anymore. This is quite obvious based on their behavior and actions. They know they secured a dictatorship and never have to worry about elections ever again.