A geopolitical Cold War simmers with China. The Mexico-Central America humanitarian migration crisis only worsens. A long-view immigration strategy has eluded the Western Hemisphere.

Lurking and hunched across 2,000 miles of sand, binational urban clusters and desert voids, this crisis is the America’s most intractable ongoing challenge.

Do we have the imagination as Americanos to rethink a long-term response?

Greg Custer has been an observer and student of Mexico for over 40 years, working for Mexico’s tourism ministry for over 25 years. He has resided Lakeside since 2015 and brings his perspective on Mexico-US relations through a unique lens nurtured by a Southern California upbringing and decades of observation and reflection.