'What are solutions to the border impasse? Improving the asylum system is key. Many seeking asylum must wait not weeks or months, but years.'
Try walking five miles, without water, across uninhabited desert in June in southern Arizona. Then try 20 miles. Only if you have experienced walking in extreme heat can you know the difficulty. Thousands of people from Mexico and Central and South America have walked hundreds of miles in such conditions, to reach the United States border. Others may be escaping gang violence, murder, kidnappings and extortion.
Our Congress has not found a satisfactory method to solve the legal and humanitarian border crisis for the past 30 years. Fear and paranoia are used. Claims may be that immigrants are coming to take jobs. Their gangs will plunder, vandalize, injure, or worse. They will get free health care, free education, free everything, destroying our economy. The warnings are only limited by conspiratorial thinking. The vast majority just want to support their families.
Some desperate immigrants pay a coyote thousands of dollars to get them across the border, often with disastrous results. As a possible pathway to citizenship, there must be a way for vetted immigrants to pay and receive work visas for a certain length of time. If they contribute positively, they can reapply, or receive documentation as a legal avenue to become productive members of our nation.
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