Let's Stop Referring to It as a Border Crisis

 It is a national crisis:  once over the border, the people move throughout the country in families, workgroups.  They have needs to meet, and temptations abound. They don't qualify for all social programs -- the women and children do;  the men, no.  Shelter, food, work, companionship.  The barn door has been open for so long, and the true numbers undercounted coming across or uncounted once settled here (innacurate Census figures.)

 Maybe it hasn't come to the more built-up, and pricey, East Coast, or whiter segregated middle-class communities.  But indoors, in schools and shelters in the winters, you see who has been living outside and in barns and old country houses while the weather was warm.  I don't think everybody heads back home, not the women and children who are settling and schooling here.

Are any national politicians thinking about how to address Mexican crime cartel problems that are being imported in American back yards?  They should. No way can all these people be deported, and conflict with come in settling them without citizenship.

How can Congress be passing trillion dollar social programs when they have no idea yet of unmet need and have not addressed the immigration issue still?  Will it just be a firesale --- get it until it's gone?  We're selling out the country to the richest foreigners and bringing in the least costly workers we can attract?