[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.

NOPE. The buck doesn't even exist anymore because the antagonist Congress has gone to war with the people's choice for President. And the why of it is simple; he's not a product of the establishment. AFTR, the federal laws are such a collision of jurisdictional overlap that nobody can really say with clarity what the heck the law is. And frankly the official historical record on that is more than clear starting with the Democrat betrayal of Reagan on this exact subject. You remember the “The Immigration Reform and Control Act” of 1986, right?

Article Quote: "One of the “sweeteners” to obtain the votes necessary to pass the bill was also a Congressional promise to fund and build a border fence.

Sound familiar?

Today, 27 years after the passage of the IRCA, (make that 33 years and counting as of today) the border fence isn’t built and the penalties against hiring illegal aliens remain largely unenforced." http://www.conservativehq.com/article/12...s-mistakes

Maybe a reputable or talented lion trainer could have followed up the Sigmond and Roy Act with some success, but no kind of trainer could hope to walk into the swamp and expect any amount of success given the venomous cur striding those halls. And IMO Sir, you are dancing around that existential fact.

Trump is not enforcing existing immigration laws...period. Make all the excuses for him that you want but the truth is that he promised to build a border wall and to get tough on illegal immigration and he has failed miserably to do either.

Congress passes bills and the President signs them into law. Trump has one veto to his name, which seems odd for a fellow who threatens to veto so much legislation and was elected on a drain the swamp platform.

Mitch McConnell is driving the legislative agenda in this country. Trump is not much more than a spectator at this point. He's playing the COL Henry Blake role to Mitch's Radar O'Reilly. Radar interrupts Henry's tweeting long enough to tell him what and where to sign.