illegal immigration

Editor's note: Immigration has been a political boondoggle for at least two decades in the United States. Congress has yet to come up with a system that will successfully address the complexities, and President Donald Trump has taken some decisions into his own hands.

Guard’s last border deployments offer clues to the future

In this Monday, June 5, 2006, file photo, Utah National Guard troops from the 116th Construction Equipment Support Company, the first National Guard unit along the border as part of Operation Jump Start, prepare to extend a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border in San Luis, Ariz. In 2018, the U.S. National Guard faces a vastly different environment than it did on its last two deployments to the border with Mexico, with far fewer illegal crossings and more Central Americans than Mexicans coming. (AP Photo/Khampha Bouaphanh, File)

Honduras immigrant Vicky Chavez has taken sanctuary in the First Unitarian Church in Salt Lake City. Taking sanctuary may become more common if DACA is eliminated, according to the Rev. Dr. Dottie Escobedo-Frank, senior pastor at the Catalina United Methodist Church in Tucson, Arizona. (First Unitarian Church/Alex Adams Photography)

Migrants demonstrate at the border crossing into Hungary, near Horgos, Serbia, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2015. The border crossing was closed by the Hungarian police after the Hungarian government declared a state of crisis due to mass migration, meaning special measures to fight illegal immigration, in two Hungarian counties bordering Serbia. (Tamas Soki/MTI via AP)

Migrants cross a border line between Serbia and Hungary, near the village of Horgos, Serbia, Friday, Aug. 28, 2015. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)