Even without a wall, we have the tools to end chaos at the border

Published November 6, 2018 5:00am ET



A caravan of thousands of migrants from Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador is headed north toward the southern border of the United States. Their end goal? Eventual “asylum” status within our borders.

This surge in unfettered immigration is the new normal. The number of families arrested for unlawfully crossing the southern border spiked nearly 40 percent between July and August. So far this year, the Border Patrol has apprehended more than 350,000 illegal immigrants.

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