[TheRealThing]

Trump did little or nothing during the two years that Republicans enjoyed two years of total control of Congress to address the illegal immigration issue. That is an indisputable fact. The catch and release program that began before Trump took office and continues to this day was and continues to be a failure of the executive branch of the government to enforce existing laws against illegal immigration.

Democrats are opposed to enforcing our immigration laws but they are as powerless to change those laws now as they were when Donald Trump took the oath of office in 2017. The Democrat Party deserves all of the contempt and all of the opposition that we can muster - but to give President Trump a complete pass for not finding a way to enforce existing immigration laws and for not being able to work with a Republican Congress for two years to secure more funding for enforcing the immigration laws that he is sworn to uphold is pure, unadulterated blind partisanship.

As a candidate, President Trump did a great job focusing attention on the existential threat this nation faces from unfettered illegal immigration but the time for tough talk with no effective results ended when we handed him the keys to the White House and delivered him a Republican controlled Congress.

In light traffic, both President Trump and I are within a few minutes drive of neighborhoods where English is spoken only as a second language. Here, in the middle of the eastern U.S. seaboard, you can tune in about as many Spanish language AM radio stations as English speaking stations in the middle of the day.

The population of illegal immigrants in this country is far higher than the often cited 11 or 12 million people and the number continues to grow. Anybody who travels around large American cities knows this to be a fact but as president, Donald Trump is in the unique position of having the power to command that federal agencies enforce our immigration laws. His walk needs to start living up to his talk.

So, if you want to pat yourself on the back for correctly pointing out that voting control of the House of Representatives last year would be bad for this country, then go right ahead - but our laws against illegal immigration have not changed in the past 26 months and the Trump administration is still not enforcing those laws.

I will stipulate to the accuracy of your analysis, right up until Nov 8 of 2016. The governmental establishment up until that point, had functioned according to it's own liking, and did so independent of any meaningful media analysis, accountability, or transparency before the American people.

Trump came along threatening to blow up their playhouse and spoke the unvarnished truth to the people, who loved it and voted for him. Thusly starting the intra-establishment 'resistance' of the past two years. For anyone to blame Trump or attempt to hang the immigration albatross around his neck, is like blaming the iceberg or even the sea water that gushed into the Titanic for it's sinking. Shallow thinking and dereliction of responsibility lies at the root of all our ills. Not any one man's failure to navigate the treacherous waters of the affairs of state. The vision which begat a government for and by the people has been lost.