LurkerMom: So far this year, at least 1,047,528, people have been apprehended or reported evading capture, according to data analyzed by The Center Square.

Do you not recognize the uselessness of that data? And that it is presented to sensationalize rather than to inform?

For example, were 98% of the people apprehended and 2% reported evading capture? Or did 98% evade capture while 2% were apprehended?

The Center Square doesn't tell us although it claims to have "analyzed" the "data obtained by The Center Square from a Border Patrol agent".

Since a high percentage of migrant captures ruins its narrative, a logical inference is that captures significantly outpaced evasions.

Look, no one disputes that immigration is an issue, a big issue. No one disputed it was an issue when republicans controlled the House, the Senate, and the White House under Trump. Their focus then was tax cuts for the wealthy and the repeal of Obamacare. They passed one -- which has added a couple of trillion to the debt, now a very big concern of theirs -- and failed on the other. We won't go into Trump's promise to get Mexico to pay for a wall.

In an election year, republicans are not about to pass any meaningful immigration legislation or funding -- hell, a not insignificant number of republicans are pushing for default on the debt -- and democrats, who no longer control the House, have no leverage to bargain.

Stalemate.