Treating this as important pushes real news off the front page and to some extent the complicity of the click receiving news publishers is happy to comply.
But it's not a sane world. It's a world where the US doesn't even pretend to stick to the spirit or letter of deals that it makes. And so dealing with the US is pointless whether you are their oldest and closest ally or a nation currently at war with them.
You can't even rely on their own national self interest, you'd need to know exactly which billionaire has the ear of the president for the entire span of your agreement.
If people normalize to lies, outrageous demands, lawbreaking, threats against allies and their sovereignty, etc ... if these behaviours are accepted as the new normal for a powerful world leader, without any outrage and with no pushback ... we show approval and we invite progressively worse behaviour.
It's all gradual, very incremental treachery. We accept it and encourage more.
Would they want to run the gauntlet of the various 'migration' agencies anyway?
Trump's left hand is saying come here, whilst his right is crushing migrant children. What to do, what to do?