BROWNSVILLE, Texas Its time to decriminalize unauthorized border crossings, three Democrats running for top offices in Texas tell HuffPost.

That simple legal reform would have massive repercussions, upending the zero tolerance policy that the Trump administration used to split up families at the border. It would still allow the Department of Homeland Security to charge unauthorized immigrants with civil violations, but it would save the government billions in incarceration costs and allow federal prosecutors to spend more time fighting non-immigration crimes . And it would be logistically simpler than abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the idea currently in vogue on the left wing of the Democratic Party.