interdiction is pretty good actually. The problem is when they are caught they immediately claim they are seeking amnesty which, unfortunately or fortunately depending on whose ox is being gored, entitles them under our current law--some of it Constitutional law and thus difficult to change--to some pretty burdensome due process rights under the 14th Amendment. I read the other day that it takes 4 years to get a final amnesty adjudication.

But we don't have sufficient detention facilities to hold all these people for 4 years, so they are released pre-trial. This is well known to would-be migrants, so it, perversely, encourages additional migrants to make the trip.

The two parties can find no consensus on how to handle this. One party demands that the border be "closed" but, as the self-described small government party, refuses to allocate funds sufficient to accomplish that task.

The other party, being generally soft-hearted (and soft-headed) regarding the "huddled masses, yearning to be free," inscription on the Statue of Liberty, failed to treat this as a serious problem for way too long. (As a supporter of that party, and a supporter of greater freedom of immigration, it pains me to say this, but it is true and: I have been wrong.) That Party, however, have just finally awakened from this collective slumber/magical thinking, and (being the Party that thinks government actually does work and actually can solve problems) worked with moderate Republicans in the Senate to put together a bill that, while not perfect, would indeed ameliorate the crisis according to all serious people who have analyzed it (though it doesn't satisfy the irrational portion of either Party, for opposite reasons) and provides funding to enforce its provisions.

Unfortunately the House of Representatives is controlled (via the Speaker) by the irrational portion of the Party which happens to hold a (tiny) majority in that body, so the bill won't even get a vote, which would by all accounts be a vote for passage. The expressed wishes of that Party's presumptive Presidential nominee, who didn't want "to give Joe Biden a victory to run on this November" also played a part in the Speaker's decision.

Knowing the bill couldn't even get a vote in the Housee, some of the more vulnerable Republicans in the Senate reversed their previous support, and, joined by three radical Dems (Sanders and two others IIRC), sufficed to also kill it in that body. And in the words of the poet known as Los Angeles Hoo, here we are.