Y'all can go round and round all you want but if you focus on what is happening right now families aren't being separated anymore. Trying to say they're trying to escape horrendously dangerous situations isn't the case except maybe in a few situations. Gangs have not completely taken over those countries. Not even close. What you have is activists encouraging people to come and use these arguments under the asylum laws to get them in. And do they vote? Some most likely do. The same phony papers they use to get driver's licenses and public assistance and employment will also get them on voter rolls. And don't tell me the people in charge don't know what's going on there. A wink and a nod. But more importantly is the desire to provide a blanket amnesty to as many illegals as possible with a path to citizenship. Trump was actually very generous in his offer on the DACA kids. But Dems turned it down. It's all about politics. Can't give Trump a win, especially in a compromise that would have funded the wall and stopped chain migration. And greatly slow the flow of illegal immigrants. Bottom line is this is all an attempt to bring in millions, make them citizens, get their vote in exchange for assistance, insure control of the government, and continue progressive/socialist policies that will bankrupt this country and eventually tear it apart. All those years of worrying about the Soviet Union when it turns out our biggest worry was amongst our own citizenry.