It was inevitable that the free healthcare and child services we’re showering on the hordes of migrants showing up at the border would eventually run dry, absent deep cuts to the other taxpayer-funded goodies they receive.

We are now at that point.

The Washington Post reported Wednesday that the Department of Health and Human Services, just one of three federal agencies grappling with the emergency at the border, is ending educational and recreation programs for migrant children thrown into its care by illegal border crossers. The administration no longer has the resources to provide every comfort to every illegal immigrant wanting to stay in the country, and Democrats in Congress have failed to pass a bill that would both manage the mess and ameliorate the flow of migrants.

A spokeswoman for HHS told the paper that the department is diverting money away from activities deemed “not directly necessary for the protection of life and safety” of illegal aliens. That includes money for sports and games, educational classes and legal services. And yes, these are things provided free of charge up to now to anyone who shows up in the country, especially if they come with children — all courtesy of the American taxpayer.

Hysteria from liberals over the adjustments absolutely required to protect the health and lives of illegal immigrants predictably followed.

Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, D-Fla., told the Post that taking away the soccer balls and lawyers from the migrants is “robbing them of their humanity.”

Former Obama White House official Dan Pfeiffer reacted to the Post report glibly tweeting, “President cancels yard privileges for children he has put in prison.”

Hillary Clinton, the political pundit and two-time presidential candidate, said that the rationing of resources will ensure that detention centers for illegal immigrants will now be “indistinguishable from prisons.”

The Trump administration has been warning about this for months. I even remember something about a national emergency. Now-former Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen said in December, after migrant children started dying at the border, that “the system is clearly overwhelmed.”

In March, she warned Congress of a “system-wide meltdown,” explaining that “DHS facilities are overflowing, agents and officers are stretched too thin, and the magnitude of arriving and detained aliens has increased the risk of life-threatening incidents.”

As recently as last week, acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan told journalists that “We are going to be faced with very stark choices” if Congress doesn’t allocate more money to deal with the endless flow of Mexican and Central American immigrants crossing illegally into the U.S., where they immediately secure legal protection by claiming asylum.

These are the "stark choices" they’re making. It’s either free Nintendo or free medicine, free attorneys or free doctors.

As much as Democrats and an apathetic Republican Party would like us to be the world's welfare net, we simply can’t be everything to everyone all the time.

Something’s gotta give, and it starts with the soccer balls.