These problems are married to each other

This is one of those extremely complicated problems that you can't just "policy" away. A political talking point won't nearly address the complexity of the relationship between America's gang culture, crime, drugs and our borders.

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What people on the right won't tell you is that the problem isn't people migrating to the United States.

The vast majority of the people who attempt to immigrate to the United States do so because they're fleeing extreme violence and crime in their own nations. So, that's another of those complexities that politicians fail to address... how do we address the problems that are resulting in the large numbers of people seeking asylum in America?

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We can't ignore the problems behind these people by simply implementing policies in front of them that inhibit their ability to enter the United States. To be clear, what these people... men, women and children... are fleeing is much worse than the dangers they face just to get to the border. Then, they face the unknown, depending the administration in power.

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First things first... make DACA the law of the land. Secondly, create a humane process for addressing the needs of the people crossing our borders. That policy should include a means to ferret out bad actors, if there are any without violating anyone's civil rights. Just because they're not Americans doesn't mean they don't have the same civil or human rights as anyone else. Create a pathway to citizenship.

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The Department of State, CIA, Homeland Security, FBI and ICE should work with their counterparts in the nations from which the immigrants are fleeing to address the problems which are the causation of the large numbers of its citizens needing to flee. It's not a problem composed of a singular issue but a singular issue with a plethora of complex problems.