"We are letting them win without firing a shot."

Please consider this:
When America took the land from Mexico it split families across borders. Creating the border there created border crossings there. I'm not saying that's a good thing or a bad thing about the border, it is just the truth because that's what happened. plain and simple.

Sure it's a hell of a lot better in America. Damn right it is. It's about as good as fucked up gets in this world and we are proud of that as Americans. The native born USA citizens are lucky and didn't have to do anything out of the ordinary aside from being a live birth to get here. You can't blame others and especially Central Americans for coming here, they have family here and much better opportunities here. Who wouldn't want to come here? You would want to come here too if you were in their place.

It's not a war, it's life going on. It's not going to stop through legislation or politics or executive or regulative or police or military actions and means. It's not going to stop at all. Humans migrate from shitty conditions to better conditions. What do you want to do, bomb them? Make it a real war? That will just make them want to get the fuck out of there faster and come here even more. You want to commit complete genocide? This is simply not possible.

The best we can hope for is to be able to keep better track of it and make wise choices as a government. As individual and collective people we have to adjust. The world is not becoming less populated and isn't going to stop or change just because we don't agree with it or like how it's going.