Good points. That’s what is so frustrating about this fabricated confrontation. The immigrants hold most of the cards once it gets down to the final couple of hundred yards.
That's why the optics on the Mexican border of 2,000 rushing in a wave thru the border looked so bad. The press controls the narrative there. Better a standard border response with a large fallback response force in a tightly controlled area back from the border. Suspension of asylum claims and press access via Martial Law. Just like military found out, press kills the military message like in Vietnam and not allowing press like desert storm allowed the job to get done. The leftist soros press is a definable enemy in this scenario. Luckily our President very well knows that and it drives the press crazy.