Want to Solve the Border Crisis? Legalize Immigration.

Republicans won’t pass aid to Ukraine without a so-called “border deal,” and although Democrats don’t agree on how to do it, they have already agreed with the Republicans’ restrictionist goal to let fewer people into America. But nearly everything that politicians now use to justify immigration restriction can be traced to the restrictionist policies already in force.

In other words, immigration restrictionists create the problems and then demand ever more restrictions to fix them. Lather, rinse, repeat.

The main problem they assert is simply that people keep entering the country illegally. An inquisitive person might ask: Why don’t they come legally?