that with Dem efforts to reduce and cap detention spaces? Or their unwillingness to come up with legislation to extend detention beyond what Flores currently allows? Your nitpicking about legal vs illegal aside (since JM didn't mention being illegal), of course with detention centers already at or near capacity, it won't take long with those situations for folks to figure out this is the easiest approach to getting in when you know release is inevitable (keeping in mind how many of those "legal" asylum seekers ultimately get denied or never return for hearings). Even more so when you arrive with children, which only increases the incentive to have kids make that dangerous trek rather than seek asylum in Mexico, be they your children or not. And how do you square that with Ted Cruz's proposal to do exactly what you suggest for clearing up the backlog and expediting to stay within Flores requirements, and expanding detention spaces, getting zero support from the Dems? And of course if you do that, and asylum seekers start getting processed quickly with most still getting denied, they will quickly figure out illegal crossing is the better approach. Which brings us back to how do you control that.....

That's what is so infuriating about this (and so many) topics. There are easy and logical solutions exactly like you suggest. But we have two parties more interested in driving the voter base and political donations, rather than solving problems.