The Colors of Our Leaders are Showing at Our Southern Border

   Eagle Pass, Texas: Customs and Border Protection suspends traffic coming into the U.S. to free up agents to handle the high volume of migrants crossing the border.
   San Antonio, Texas: The Migrant Resource Center is flooded beyond capacity, with hundreds left to sleep in the parking lot. 
   Lukeville, Arizona: The surge of immigrants across a stretch of the border is so heavy that about 4,000 agents are required to deal with it.
   Incidents such as these highlight the failure of our processing of immigrants all across our southern border. There are so many seeking entry, the system cannot handle them. So, what should we do? Construct a steel barricade to prevent entry? Throw up barb wire fences in the middle of the Rio Grande? Those efforts do not address the humanitarian need to process the immigrants in an orderly fashion, to help them, to improve their living conditions as they arrive.
   Yes, there is a crisis at our border, but it is not the crisis of terrorists entering America. This is no invasion. Nor is it a crisis of drugs entering the U.S. That is a separate issue being carried out by a separate group of people. These are people coming with few drugs. These immigrants just want to live in the U.S., work in the U.S., and join family members in the U.S.  
   No, this is a humanitarian crisis. It is a test of America's resolve to care for a people. It is a test of whether America desires to help immigrants who are in need. I'd say we are failing the test. As they pour in, we heap upon them our contempt. Are these our true colors? Is this who America really is? Or is the showing of colors just a display of the colors of those who are running our nation?