I think about it this way. We have satellites that can see these people from space, the Republic will not fall if we have a few hundred immigrants, the United States is a big country.
Moreover - This happens annually for migrant workers at harvest, it's more by an order of magnitude. But it's cool because farmers don't ask , and nobody else is telling.
Now the real concern is that tick tock motherfucker it's Election week, and if you're a white-supremacist pollster with an axe to grind, this is a gift from God, so it will remain the fetish item of the hour for our friends over at Fox News 6 weeks from now, if/when/were this to happen again, it wouldn't even make the news cycle.
But for the next 8 days, this is just one of a shit-show of epithets to rile up the audience , so the stream of consciousness over at Fox will froth at the mouth with our oh so familiar "not-a-racist, but" buzzword list, "evil, illegals, invader, satan lovers, Obama,very bad, disgusting, Hillary, ridiculous, national disaster,catastrophe, nuclear, brown, animals".
That festive stream of consciousness that's not exactly racist but gets the message across just fine, but rest assured, once we get past, that 8 or 9 days from now, it won't even make the news cycle, unless something goes tragically wrong.
We literally take tens/hundreds of thousands of people into the country every fucking day.
Literally on our Statue of Liberty, it says give us your poor, your tired , your huddled masses , yearning to breathe free.
Well here they come, 80 miles from the border. Most/all of them are coming from an objectively shit situation across a country they don't know, don't speak the language in (possibly), and are doing so in heat, grief and without food/water to the point of exhastion, each day and have been for several days/weeks.
If they come to the border and try to get processed as immigrants it will take days/weeks to get that all sorted out.
Were I to describe the benefits and notions of the United States to some of it's citizens, given a similarly dire circumstance , would they make that decision to walk.
Knowing you have an unwelcome reception awaiting you, and yet they still come.
That's a humbling testament to the promise of our nation. We should be proud to have people want to come here, given all the effort and the tireless work on the part of the executive and his associates to belittle immigrants and non-whites.
In fairness, the United States is not necessarily the most welcoming place imaginable. But yet here these folks come.
I say if they're willing to work hard, get jobs and be honest then why shouldn't we welcome them with open arms.
The only REAL problem here is that we can't ez-pass these people through, and immediately , or very nearly so, get them identified, checked for criminal records and checked for vaccinations.
Beyond that, the usual conditions apply.
The other thing to consider is that, what percentage of these people are going to actually stay, or are they coming here, going to get a bit of stuff sorted out, and then say "hey I'm good, I can head back to whereever"