What Immigration Crisis? The U.S. Isn’t Being Swamped

The eyes of the country are fixed upon the U.S.-Mexico border. Controversy over President Donald Trump’s policy of separating the children from parents accused of illegal entry -- a practice he didn’t begin, but temporarily scaled up with a so-called zero-tolerance policy toward asylum-seekers -- has caused a flood of outrage. Whether Trump’s apparent reversal of that policy, and his return to Obama-era practices, will mollify critics remains to be seen.

But the larger issue of illegal immigration from the south remains unsolved. Trump and his advisers, particularly Stephen Miller, have portrayed illegal entry across the Mexican border as a mounting crisis, necessitating dramatic action. Nothing could be further from the truth; the problem has slowly been resolving itself, and will likely continue to do so.