MCALLEN, TEXAS – The current migration crisis at the southern border has become an all-too-familiar issue for U.S. border officials following three major upticks over the past four years.

Kevin McAleenan, commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, is the country’s top border official and tasked with responding to the current surge. But McAleenan is also fixated on finding a permanent solution that doesn’t land his agency’s 60,000 personnel in the same position in the near-future, as he explained during a meeting at the McAllen Border Patrol Station in the Rio Grande Valley this week.