Turn our southern border into the next Ellis Island

[Spipperk (Jennifer Taylor)]

After watching the mess on our southern border for years I believe we need a new approach. As a nation founded on immigrants I feel like we need to go back to our beginning. Instead of a wall we need a processing center like Ellis Island. It can be the length of the border, filled with medical facilities, housing, schools, and courts. As people apply they are quarantined, given medical care, investigated, given classes for language and job trainings. They are also given the opportunity to start the citizenship process and given access to the legal system needed to do it LEGALLY. If criminals arrived they are detained and deported. It worked before and we grew our country and kept the disease at bay. While the wait to be processed they have to work in the facility and or attend classes. This also gives us the opportunity to verify their previous education and work experiences and give them the opportunity to train and test to bring their previous skills to the American work force. There is a way to do this correctly, safely and humanely. Thinking about the BILLIONS we have thrown at this problem in the last 4 years (or more) I think we can spend that money far more responsibily .