Protecting the border is not a police function, but that’s how it’s been treated for too many years. Protecting the borders is a quintessentially military function.
It is a military function but if it is a military function it should operate using military action to those who come over illegally.
Troops standing around acting like nannies is ridiculous.
The best way to end this is to cut all freebies to illegals and that will lead many to go back to where they came from.