The reality of the situation “plays into the GOP”.
Just for fun - what does the DUmp think we do with the daily deluge of humanity that crosses the border? Those thousands of people eat, drink, breathe, sleep, pee, crap, and everything else that humans do. Does DU think there are adequate facilities and infrastructure to house these people in Texas, Arizona, California, Florida, and other points of entry? There aren't, because the border is supposed to operate in an orderly fashion, with a process to migrate to the US.
Liberals think an open border means anyone come in, because it'll turn red states blue and blue states bluer, and all those people are automatons who do nothing but vote Dem.
If all those people are coming here for "asylum," then why the **** aren't DUmmies hopping up and down for us to invest in the countries they're coming from? We have plenty of money for Ukraine - why don't we have money to help Honduras, Nicaragua, and the others, where things are SO BAD that their entire population is streaming northward? (By the way, all we heard from 2003-2018 or so was "we have plenty of money for endless war, so why not.....". In that vein, I am now using "we have plenty of money for Ukraine...") At this point, why not annex those countries, make them states, and suck up their resources? I can assure you all that we need the tax base to pay for debt interest and entitlements. I am all for annexing Mexico and Canada for the same reasons.