...The plan [George W.] Bush proposed was similar to a law that Reagan had supported in 1986, granting a blanket amnesty in return for beefed-up border security, better enforcement of immigration laws, and serious visa and immigration reforms.
Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, on a visit to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Friday, said the U.S. has to strengthen efforts to control the humanitarian crisis that both nations face with unaccompanied [illegal alien] migrant children crossing the U.S. Southwest border.
Minor children of would-be legal immigrants can wait in line for visas with their parents. Except the waiting lines are so long that the children are no longer children if and when the visas are granted. Then they have to go back to the far end of the line and start over.