Opinion: Look beyond border to solve immigration

We Americans like to think of ourselves as problem solvers of a sort. If something is wrong, or needs fixing, we feel we can get to the heart of the matter and figure out a solution that is best addressed to solve it.

There is a problem with immigration in this country — legal and illegal. Always has been, and if we don’t figure things out, always will be.

Spending $5.7 billion to build a great, big, beautiful wall — even a not-so-big and beautiful steel barrier — is not a solution. Never has been, never will be.

There are many ways to circumvent a wall, and those who would bring illegal drugs...