Commentary The surge of migrants at the U.S. southern border has dramatically increased in recent months. According to U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas, “We are on pace to encounter more individuals on the southwest border than we have in the last 20 years.” In February, changes in U.S. border policy and the search for a better life incentivized more than 100,000 migrants to travel to the United States and cross the southern border. Sadly, children are now forced to stay in “jail-like” Border Patrol facilities past the 72-hour legal limit because more appropriate shelters are already at 94 percent capacity. The Biden administration gave an $86.9 million contract to U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement for hotel rooms to address the situation. While recently leading a congressional delegation to El Paso, Texas, Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said, “It’s more than a crisis, this is a human heartbreak.” …