'Border crisis' as Republican advantage may be conventional wisdom proven wrong this time

Dems may have to go solo, writes María Isabel Puerta Riera.

The immigration system has always struggled to maintain a balance between America’s image as a nation of immigrants and its image as a nation of laws. While contemporary Democrats prefer the former, Republicans prefer the latter. Amid that balancing act, the US continues facing cyclic influxes of undocumented immigrants across its porous southern border…