Everything Democrats are doing right now as it relates to the border crisis, with great assist from the national news media, is a desperate attempt to distract you from a problem that they have no interest in fixing.

When Latino Democratic House members toured the illegal immigrant detention centers in Texas this week and came out hysterical about how “inhumane” the facilities are, that was a distraction.

When the always-ignorant Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez showed up in a red dress to scold border agents for their “behavior,” that was a distraction.

When ProPublica dug through an obscure, private Facebook group, reportedly made up of current and former Border Patrol agents, and found a few inappropriate jokes about illegal immigrants and the stunt congressional border visit, that was a distraction.

They all know that the problem is simple. It’s hundreds of thousands of people hurling themselves across the border into the U.S. and overwhelming the government’s resources. Any talk about anything else is solely intended to divert attention away from dealing with that issue because Democrats don’t want to solve it.

Our system on the border was set up to do one thing: prevent people from entering the country without authorization. Anyone who did so was ideally caught, processed and deported. It wasn’t created to manage groups of 200 people at a time, most of which are women and children hoping to stay. It wasn’t created to hold thousands of people who have traveled hundreds of miles and show up sick and dirty, in desperate need of medical attention, food, clothing and diapers.

The fact that Democrats and the media don’t want you to know is that no amount of money, no amount of personnel on the border, no amount of housing, will solve the problem. The only way to solve it is to end the abuse of asylum claims and mandate that all illegal immigrants, including children, be swiftly returned to their country of origin for their own government to handle. That requires new laws passed by Congress.

Democrats, of course, don’t believe in that solution. But because their own position — open borders — is rejected by most Americans, their only option is to distract.

Instead, they talk about border agents on Facebook. They talk about the “behavior” of agents as if they’re in pre-school and not in the sweltering Texas heat grappling with a crisis that Democrats spent months denying even exists. They talk about “inhumane” conditions in the detention centers that were never designed to house thousands of children.

Democrats have figured out that they can’t hide from the issue so they’re creating a sandstorm around it in hopes that the rest of the public will no longer understand what’s going on. Democrats don’t want people to understand that they're to blame for the fact that this crisis continues.