I'm Ali Velshe in for Alex Wagner.

Ron DeSantis described it as a crisis and a war.

Donald Trump called it an invasion.

With less than two weeks left until the Iowa Caucasus today,

Trump and DeSantis published dueling op-eds in the Des Moines Register, both cast immigration

as the most pressing problem facing our country.

Both candidates promised that they and they alone can fix it.

Now what both Trump and DeSantis are advancing in these op-eds are neither actual fixes

to our country's border issues nor are they actual immigration policy.

But they are the sort of plans you can tell people you have, and they are articulating them

to the public.

They want to let fewer brown people in. They want immigration

to be the most painful process possible. They want to set new records in deportation.

Again, none of that really addresses any of the root causes of migration or the actual problems with our

immigration system which are real.

But it is a plan and it is a plan around which Republicans are largely unified.

This is video from last Friday of migrants,

including children and adults carrying children,

attempting to cross a river at the southern border

in Eagle Pass, Texas.

The Texas Governor Greg Abbott tweeted this video out today.

Not out of sympathy for the plight of these migrants that you're looking at on your screen

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