WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the immigration debate continues on Capitol Hill, three Ohio lawmakers made border-related trips in the last five days to see the humanitarian crisis up close.

Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) made separate trips to Texas over the weekend.

On Monday, they were both back in Washington and led their offices in a bipartisan rivalry softball game. It was a friendly setting where they talked about the importance of bipartisanship and made their case for what Washington needs to do to fix things at the border.

“We can put together a solid immigration bill that would secure the border, that would help to keep fentanyl out of the country, and other opioid-addictive drugs, could have a path to citizenship that people would have to earn, would make our country more prosperous and richer, and would be a humane policy,” said Brown. “Our president chooses not to do that and our Congress enables him so he doesn’t have to.”

Portman said the crisis at the border demands that Congress take action.

“That means stopping the laws and the rules in this country that entice people to come to our borders,” said Portman. “We have an unprecedented number of people coming in now, particularly families and children. You know, we’re talking about over 100,000 a month, thousands a day, tens of thousands a week. It’s overwhelming the system.”

Portman added: “And second, in the meantime, we’ve got to provide Customs and Border Protection and the folks who are trying to do their level best to take care of this surge of people, we’ve got to provide them with the resources they need.”

Video from Friday showed Portman speaking with migrant children detained in McAllen, Texas.

He made the trip with a group of Republican senators and Vice President Mike Pence.

Portman said he anticipated crisis-like conditions, but was still surprised.

“So we’ve got to do something about it and I’m going to continue to work, as I have been, with Democrats and Republicans to come up with solutions, not just to cast blame but to figure out how do we solve this problem?”

Brown took a different route by traveling with his wife, Connie Schultz, to El Paso, Texas on Sunday. They visited a faith-based charity that’s helping migrant children, and got turned away from an ICE facility.

“I didn’t get into every place where the worst kind of abuses are, but I saw enough to see that our policy doesn’t work for our country,” said Brown. “It’s counter to American values. It’s immoral to separate children from their families.”

Both senators said it was hard to believe the situation on the border has gotten as bad as it is. And while they didn’t blame each other for the gridlock in Washington, they both pointed fingers at the opposing party for not being open to compromise.

Congressman and presidential candidate Tim Ryan (D-13) was in Homestead, Florida on Monday with a group of Democrats on the House Appropriations Committee.

They toured the largest facility in the country for unaccompanied migrant children.

While Ryan said the conditions weren’t bad, he blamed President Trump for keeping the kids detained in the first place and worried about taxpayers footing the bill and the children going untreated for trauma.

“If you have the president acting like an abusive father, which is really what he’s doing —I mean, he’s really head of the American family, whether you like it or not — he’s being an abusive father and he should resolve these issues, take care of these kids, plug the hole coming out of Central America, stabilize those countries, and then we can all move on and focus on the economy here,” said Ryan.

All three lawmakers did not return from their trips with any new concrete ideas to make things better on the border.

And with Congress scheduled to be on recess for the entire month of August, little to no action is expected any time soon.