In a perfect world we would have time to vet, and sort, and there would be countries we could return less desirable applicants to.

But we don't have time, they don't have time, and neither we nor they have a place that our conscience and values would allow us to send them back to.

What we have is our humanity, and a vast country that is incredibly under-populated, and a population demographic that urgently requires renewed generations of workers to meet our country's growing needs.

Unemployment may seem high if you're unemployed, but in the big picture it's low and going to get critical in short order so we need to act.

We have to balance what we mean by "breaking the law" when it comes to parents who are taking desperate measures to safeguard their families, the same as you or I would do in their position. The idea of long-term incarceration is abominable, by the way. Expensive, cruel, counter-productive, and pointless. The immigrants I know are wonderful and deserve better.