Republicans frequently use the phrase “the crisis at the border”. I don’t know whether or not there is a true crisis at the border; but I’d say that the ongoing nationwide problem of frequent mass shootings is a definite crisis, and immigrants have little or nothing to do with it.
The Republican party’s standard way of responding to each new mass shooting is (say it with me) “thoughts and prayers”.
It’s the Republican party’s policy to get everyone riled up over fake crises and to ignore or deny real crises. They’ll continue to do so as long as enough people keep falling for it.