Border Crisis a ‘Shell Game,’ Critics Say

Atop a mountain overlooking the U.S.-Mexico border in San Diego County near the small town of Campo, a few tents, ramshackle shelters, and water bottles tell the tale of America’s ongoing illegal immigration crisis. The border wall slopes down the mountainside and “suddenly stops” near an old train trestle and tunnel, said local resident Cory Gautereaux, motioning towards the valley below. Non-governmental organizations, or NGOs, which are funded by the government, provide the water and tents for illegal immigrants at the taxpayers’ expense, he said. The hotspots where illegal immigrants cross keep changing depending on the intensity of media exposure and political heat the state and federal government receive, Mr. Gautereaux said....