Subject: Re: Trump: I Would Encourage Russia...
Processing is easy. Housing, feeding, educating and health care are another thing.
Right - because if you don't do the processing timely, then you have to house, feed, educate, and provide health care for all those people pending their hearings. If we did the processing - which as you note is easy - then you'd have hundreds and hundreds of thousands fewer people that are waiting around, unable to work or provide for themselves.
Since we never shifted our processing infrastructure to match the changing composition of people crossing the border, we are suffering an avoidable problem that could have been addressed if we had provided sufficient resources.