Good article Caren. All hype for Abbott's run for the presendency 2024.

The solutions though.

As far as helping folk back in the counties of immigration origin, getting money directly into individual or family pockets may be an answer if the practicalities support it. Some kind of UBI program in fact where money doesn't flow simply to dubious administrations. Another simpler way is to allow a controlled immigration that is processed in U.S. embassies across Central America. Beginning with asylum cases. The remmitances from those immigrants living and working here would be a better alternative to traditional U.S. foreign aid where much is lost.

Pehaps a trick for the Democrats is to make the failed policy of immigration into a successful one. Not necessarily the whole "lack of reality" but a part of it.