Wrangell Sentinel -

The U.S.-Mexico border is a humanitarian disaster, with U.S. Border Patrol agents taking custody of upwards of 200,000 people a month trying to cross a line in the sand, river, desert shrubs or razor wire in search of a better life.

The numbers are staggering — for the burden it imposes on U.S. border cities, on federal agents, and on the immigrants caught up in the political war of a U.S. election year.

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators worked hard to find solutions to tighten the border, only to watch as presidential candidate Donald Trump called on his fellow Republicans not to work with...