Editorial: Two misconceptions and a truth about the U.S.-Mexico border

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Border security has been a high-budget priority for legislators for years.
54% : The humanitarian crisis demands that politicians do their job to secure the southern border and do so humanely.
51% : The real solution is to create an orderly, humane way of processing claims for asylum by expanding border authorities' capacity and funding, including adding immigration judges.
47% : Title 42 helps the government control the borderIt has been hard to miss the images of hundreds of migrants waiting along the Rio Grande in Texas in recent weeks, hoping to request asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border if the courts lift Title 42 border restrictions.
35% : For example, much of Texas lacks border walls due to inhospitable terrain such as floodplains and areas along the Rio Grande.

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