The humanitarian crisis at our southern border is in need of a multi-pronged approach:
Those who have made the trek, risking their lives to reach even just a possibility of a better life, need to be cared for in a humane manner while going through the legal process.
The communities bearing the brunt should be reimbursed by the federal government for any incurred expenses related to law enforcement, food, shelter, etc.
The federal government must continue to work with the leaders of Mexico, Venezuela, Guatemala, and Honduras to aid in addressing the issues driving their folks to our border: corruption, violence, crime, high poverty, and food insecurity. (Perhaps then the U.S. leaders who work with the leaders of those South American countries who have people fleeing can take some of the programs they create to address those same issues and apply them to high poverty, food insecurity, and/or high crime areas of our own country!)
Most people who leave their homeland do so because they have lost hope in their government and a better life. We need to give them hope again through advising governments, working with people, and decreasing the number of people who need to flee their government.
What won't solve the crisis at our southern border is a bunch of politicians intentionally stalling a fix for political gain and using it as an opportunity to spew vitriol resulting in further division amongst our own people. Sadly, that is exactly what happened.
The current administration is deporting people to prisons in El Salvador and Libya without due process per our constitution and defying court orders. This has created great division in our country with massive protests on a regular basis. This is not the correct process or legal solution as confirmed by the courts up to and including our Supreme Court.
We are all interconnected, whether we look at it from a community, district, state, region, nation, or global perspective. We're all human and deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. Just as our constitution states all people have the right to due process, all people must follow the rule of law. Everyone from the immigrant all the way up through the president. Everyone.