David Marcus: America's immigration question will never be the same after Del Rio migrant crisis

The river that Haitian migrants crossed to enter the little town of Del Rio, Texas is the Rio Grande, but for American immigration policy itself, it was a kind of Rubicon that was crossed this month.

Over lunch on Sunday I talked to Paul, who has lived in Del Rio since 1968. "It’s the damnedest thing I’ve ever seen," he told me, going on to say, "you can’t have a town under these conditions." Even with the 15,000 migrants under the bridge now cleared out, Del Rio is awash in Border Patrol, Texas Department of Safety, Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel. 

It still feels like a town under siege.