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Opinion: Crisis at the border: Why practicality must prevail

Photo/Raquel Natalicchio/Houston Chronicle via AP / National Guard and other law enforcement are stationed at a now closed-off Shelby Park on Wednesday, March 20, 2024, in Eagle Pass, Texas.
Photo/Raquel Natalicchio/Houston Chronicle via AP / National Guard and other law enforcement are stationed at a now closed-off Shelby Park on Wednesday, March 20, 2024, in Eagle Pass, Texas. Photo/Raquel Natalicchio/Houston Chronicle via AP / National Guard and other law enforcement are stationed at a now closed-off Shelby Park on Wednesday, March 20, 2024, in Eagle Pass, Texas.

The issue at the border in Texas is a priority.

It’s been a highly challenging, complex issue for both Democrats and Republicans to get right.

The long-standing conflict pits both parties against one another in an election year that is increasingly toxic.

Let’s remind ourselves of the words of former President Donald Trump:

“They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people,” he said on the campaign trail in 2016 about immigrants crossing the border. And recently he said some migrants are “not people.”