The Democratic Party’s position on immigration is most recently personified in 2020 presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, who tweeted this week about his trip across the border to help five migrant women with their asylum claims.

The thread is light on details as to whether or not these women actually have valid legal claims to asylum in the United States, and heavy on unsubstantiated and dramatic details of the cruelty of the process at the American border.

What Booker and the rest of his party refuse to acknowledge is that the process is made more cruel by a system that is being overused, abused and stretched to the breaking point by a massive increase of spurious claims and illegal crossings.

This increase is driven by the encouragement of Democratic lawmakers like Booker who are doing everything in their power to bring more migrants into the country, further straining the underfunded legal and humanitarian resources available to them at the border.

With the promise that sitting senators will be showing up at their asylum hearings to get them into the country, who wouldn’t be trying to make the trip? To keep people out of detention centers and united with their families, Congress should get serious about discouraging lawless immigration and reforming what is obviously a failing system.

There needs to be an expedited legal process to reject baseless asylum claims and send illegal immigrants home with efficiency and dignity.

The urgency should be apparent to both parties, but unfortunately it seems that Democrats are doing whatever they can to undermine the rule of law and foment the very chaos they claim to be opposing.

The cynical use of this ongoing crisis to score political points while failing to act to solve the problem at hand is reprehensible.