[Hoot Gibson]

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.

You are dancing around the fact that those responsible for the enforcement of all existing federal laws pertaining to immigration and border control fall under the direct chain of command of the POTUS. Those federal laws are not being enforced.

The buck for not enforcing our immigration laws does not stop in the Senate and it does not stop in the House of Representatives. It stops on President Trump's desk.

"The President--whoever he is--has to decide. He can't pass the buck to anybody. No one else can do the deciding for him. That's his job." - President Harry S Truman