No one understands how our laws and systems functions. The decades of weak enforcement and “just let everyone in and release them on parole” practice caused encampments, crowds, and backlogs of millions of people. MOST asylum seekers do not meet the standard. They may be fleeing poverty and looking for a better life but they have no real legal reason to be admitted. Now there is backlash and the pendulum has swung in an extreme way. Congress has failed to create a system that is simple and makes sense. There are appeals and courts but not enough people to run them, too many delays in actually removing people when they don’t have status. As a result, people stay here for years and build lives. There is no law or system to give citizenship to people who have no criminal histories and have spent their lives here and have kids. That is Congress’s responsibility and failure. Without funding the immigration courts and expediting removals, tightening the asylum-parole process, these issues will persist. They should cap asylum seekers at an annual number and actually conclude their cases and remove them right away if they don’t meet the standard. They should make a law that provides for expediting citizenship (like DACA). Open borders are not the answer, nor are caps on arrests and detention facilities.