The lesson of history is simple and straightforward. Always sink the damn ships!
It’s perhaps informative to recall that the US Air Force created a Highway of Death in response to considerably less provocation from Iraqis back in 1991. And those Iraqis were not attempting to physically invade the USA.
If the US military will not defend the borders of the USA, it should be completely defunded and disbanded.
If the US military will not defend the borders of the USA, there is literally no point to its existence at all.
UPDATE: This is what happens when you don’t sink the first ship.
A second migrant caravan is heading for the American border having formed in the wake of an initial group, which has already crossed Guatemala and entered Mexico. The second caravan is made up of 1,000 people and crossed the border from Honduras into Guatemala on Sunday, before arriving in the town of Chiquimula on Monday night. They are following in the path of a much-larger group, believed to number around 7,000, which was sheltering in the town of Huixtla, in southern Mexcio, overnight on Monday.