Despite crying ALCOA all the time, I'm normally not a very tin foily person, but is

[wandy]

4. There is allays some amount of people coming across the border...........

The world in general has an unfortunate surplus of refugees...

“If this was happening in any other part of the world, the United States would be telling the receiving countries they have an obligation to protect the arriving migrants. We’ve done that to much poorer countries who have seen much poorer people,”

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/are-border-children-refugee-crisis-u-s-n121441

It is quit possible that this is only a moderate increase in people seeking shelter and not the disease ridden, terrorist driven FLOOD of 'takers' the GOP propaganda reports.
Even if some element of the GOP is not directly responsible, their willingness to use this crisis or any other crisis for political gain does enough damage in and of it's self.
That the U.S. can see this in any other light than humanitarian diminishes us at our very being.
Such is the price of living in a two party system where one political party has gone flat out Nutz.